Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70
The Six Bells of Madame Lin is the first book in The Witch of Marigold Hall Trilogy, a fictionalized account of the struggles of Lin Mang, a blind woman who manages to navigate the world during the Mongol conquest of China in the 13th Century. Withou
In an effort to keep senescence at bay, my first novel was published at 77 and second at 82.
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The ancillary effects of major events have always interested me.
My new novel, Pausing For A Backward Glance, is about the effect the Dreyfus Affaire in fin-de-siecle France had on the iconic figures of French culture––Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Pissarro, Proust, Debussy, and the effect they had on those events. And how that Affaire roiled the very foundations of French civilization.
Juxtaposing that event with the post-war investigations by the House Un-American Activities Committee into our Hollywood icons, the book examines the similarities between those seminal events and how it roiled our own culture.
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