This is the trade paperback edition of the mythopoeic paranormal novel recounting the attempts of one Danny Blue and his friends to come to terms with a series of unusual events in his life. A Kindle eBook edition is also available.
The Apple Tree Blossoms in The Fall, is the life journey of Carineh - a child, a teenager, a wife, a mother, but most of all a woman of purpose. From stories of her parents held-up by bandits; the white donkey gifted by Khomeini; her father's death f
I grew up in the Mission District of San Francisco. I've worked in theatre and had a play, "Letters From Rebecca," broadcast by NPR's Playhouse. I have published numerous plays and articles and an Irish American memoir called "Confessions of a Shanty Irishman." I have two books out since, including a thriller called Byron.
Aran Press handles my plays. The "60's" photo is by Clay Geerdes, Berkeley
Background
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Beckett, Chekhov, Bob Dylan, Faulkner,Hemingway Keats, Eliot, Yeats and Little Richard were influences. Thomas Pynchon is another admired author. Sylvia Plath is a great poet. I worked one summer with playwright, Sam Shepard. There are too many important authors to name, really.
Accomplishments
An Irish critic named Confessions of a Shanty Irishman a book of the week. It got a favorable review in the San Francisco Chronicle. I was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for the short Story, "Free Fall." A play called Letters from Rebecca was broadcast on NPR.