A novel about a family during World War II, set on the homefront in Springield, Mass., and in the South Pacific. The book focuses on four characters and how their lives were affected and changed during the war years.
Author of 3 novels set in the early Italian Renaissance: "Bring Me Giants!," "The Outcasts," and "Raphaella di Piero" -- stories that dramatize the life-or-death impact of the ideas and ideals people hold.
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Bill Bucko has degrees in philosophy from Purdue University, and has been a Montessori teacher and computer analyst. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in “The Atlantean Press Review” and “The Intellectual Activist.” His books include:
The Mysterious Valley, by Maurice Champagne (as translator), The Atlantean Press, 1994;
Ayn Rand’s French Children’s Magazines: The Early Inspiration of a Great Novelist, The Ayn Rand Institute Press, 2009 (limited edition);
and three novels set in the early Italian Renaissance:
Bring Me Giants!, the story of an atheist scholar at the court of the first Renaissance pope in 1451;
The Outcasts, a free-thinking boy’s rebellious quest for truth in 1400s Florence, at the dawn of the Renaissance;
Raphaella di Piero, the harrowing drama of a girl whose father murdered her mother … and the boy who loves her.
Literary influences: Ayn Rand, Victor Hugo, Sandra Shulman’s “The Florentine,” Rafael Sabatini’s “Bellarion”
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