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A sweeping saga of American idealism and disillusionment follows the lives of seven individuals as they struggle to find their place amidst the tumultuous 1960s and 70s.
div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">font size="2">A sweeping saga of American idealism and disillusionment, Richard Sharp’s exquisite i>Crystal Ships/i> traces the lives of seven friends through two decades of violence, hope, and cultural change/font>/div>
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div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">font size="2">Sharp spins an epic tale that starts back in the heady days of the Kennedy administration, when Camelot appeared as a shining beacon of hope for all Americans./font>/div>
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di | |  | | Jacob's Cellar
A saga of the assimilation of an immigrant rural community into the American mainstream in the decades lesding up tp the Civil War.
div>"Jacob's Cellar" traces four generations of assimilation of a German-speaking immigrant family into American life. The tale begins with a retelling of a family story of the long-forgotten "War of the Regulation," a rural North Carolina precurser to the Revolutionary War culminating in 1771, in which farmers took up arms against corrupt colonial officials and were put down decisively in the so-called Battle of Alamance.The family leaves North Carolina as refugees from that conflict, moving west to lawless Tennessee and eventually further west to Missouri. There, their d | |  | | The Duke Don't Dance
A humorous, but audacious and thought provoking tale of the "silent generation."
p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal">span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt">Compressed between America’s Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom were the men and women of the so-called Silent Generation. They were born too late to share in the triumph of the great victory, too early to know only the privilege of the American empire and in too few numbers to assure themselves a proper identity and enduring legacy. The Duke Don’t Dance, drawing its title from a line of graffiti encapsulating the equivoca | |  | | Time Is the Oven
A post-Civil War romanic odyssey set in turbulent Missouri.
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div>Time is the Oven is a kind of anti-Western romp, following the adventures of a young man (a boy in Jacob’s Cellar) beginning in post-Civil War Missouri. There he meets the legendary Jesse James and is singularly unimpressed, but comes to see his older brother as a sort of mentor. Pursuing a difficult romantic relationship with a “sporting lady” aspiring to become an actress, he meets only disappointment, marries a respecta |
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