THE RELUCTANT ADVENTURER
by Thomas Rejto

Press Clips

Press release

Greenwich Citizen (pdf files)
"A Tale of Two Reluctant Adventurers" - page 1 | page 2

Woodstock Times (pdf files)
"The Reluctant Translator" - page 1 | page 2

Times Herald Record
"A Cheerful Horror Story"

For immediate release
Contact: Chris Thomas, Farmhouse Films, (845) 679-4863 or
chris@farmhousefilms.net

A RELUCTANT ADVENTURER'S LEGACY- FROM FATHER TO SON

March 2003- In 1998, Laurent Rejto, filmmaker, writer and co-founder of the Woodstock Film Festival, set out to translate and publish his father Thomas Rejto¹s book, The Reluctant Adventurer, a timely novel about four buddies, their war stories, and the resiliency of friendship, and hope. The book had originally been published in France as Aventurier malgre soi at
Editions Gallimard where then editor, Nobel laureate Albert Camus, championed the book.

Nineteen ninety-eight also marked the year that the elder Rejto embarked upon his most reluctant adventure -- against the ravages of prostate cancer. Over the course of the battle, his body withered but in his gaze Laurent could still see the mischief of childhood, the vacillation of adolescence and the ultimately triumphant bellow of long-life. The expanded English edition would be published seven days prior to Thomas Rejto¹s death.

Upon first reading these adventures of love and war as a youngster, Laurent had been enthralled by the escapades of this one-for-all group of pranksters. Through his father's odyssey, he learned that good and evil usually plays out in shades of gray and that laughter and courage are the only true rejoinders to life¹s tragedies.

Through his father¹s reluctant adventures, Rejto also traced the roots of his heritage  -  his Grandmother¹s bittersweet smile, his father's caution and the bravura of his father's friends - and he engaged his grandfather and other relatives who had disappeared during the inexorable terror of night or the illusory safety of day, from Budapest¹s artillery-tattered apartments
and firing lines along the banks of the Danube. As a young man, Laurent would later haunt the streets of his relatives, and the ghosts of these too-soon-lost ancestors would reinvigorate him with pride and affection.

"From my father - The Reluctant Adventurer, I have learned respect for the wrinkles of time and the endurance of man", states Rejto, "I have learned the meaning of friendship and family, and as I have experienced my own travails, I have learned to face them with my own bittersweet smile. And perhaps most important of all, I have learned to listen for the laughter of
my own children."

The Reluctant Adventurer (isbn# 0972232400) published by Farmhouse Films, is available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and select bookstores.

For review copies or additional information, email chris@farmhousefilms.net For interviews, contact Laurent at 845 679-0552 or email laurent@woodstockfilmfestival.com

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