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My WorksTHE HERO
Ryan Garrity, winner of two Silver Stars, lost an eye and his dream of an Army career on a battlefield in Korea while leading a selected band of cowards in an experimental unit into combat. The soldier who saved his life also carried three other seriously wounded comrades to safety, but strangely his nomination for a Medal of Honor was squelched. In delving into the reason why, Ryan discovers there is such a thing as artificial courage. OOOEELIE
The book opens in the backyard of a house on Long Island overlooking Huntington Harbor. There is a husband, a wife, and a beautiful dog, an Airedale with the strange name of Oooeelie. There is a sense of a growing distance, of marital discord between the man and the woman, Gil and Joanna Tyrling. Gil’s business ventures are collapsing; his body, his spirit, and his marriage are tumbling too. He longs for something better, something that seems beyond his reach. And so does the dog. The reader will soon discover Oooeelie is no ordinary Airedale, but the reincarnation of a canine creature who taught man to speak tens of thousands of years ago. Like the hero of all good dog stories, Oooeelie is on an unrelenting quest to return to the home he loves. That place happens to be millions of light years away on a planet in Sirius System, and Oooeelie has been trying to get there ever since he crashed onto earth in a spaceship gone awry. THE JYNX
THE GENESIS OF THE JYNX: I found the Swiftboating of John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign so distasteful that I wondered, ‘What kind of a person is a Swiftboater? A character assassin is the simple answer. What stirs someone to become a Swiftboat character assassin? As you read THE JYNX, you will find that Erin Prendergast, the right wing political operative, is talented, greedy, cruel, and instinctively vindictive. She is driven by a combination of a hunger for celebrity, for money, by ambition, and by ideology. She became the antagonist of THE JYNX. In contrast toe Erin, the protagonist of THE JYNX is Billy Plunkett, a Long Island clammer, barely surviving in the beautiful and often harsh environment of Huntington Bay and its harbors. Billy is a creator, not a destroyer, who is striving to become a renowned wood sculptor. Billy is driven by a need for money, for acclaim as a sculptor, for independence, and for sex. Ironically, Billy and Erin are soul mates, but that instinctive magnetism isn’t enough. Erin is the model for his masterpiece, THE JYNX, a work of art that enrages her. Read the book to find out how Billy chose the name THE JYNX (instead of the jinx) for the sculpture and outcome of his story. THE DREAM DANCER
The story opens in Paris in the dwindling days of the summer of 1956. Coop Rever, a Native American expatriate who is the protagonist of THE DREAM DANCER, is getting ready to travel to Algeria to gather material for his third book on the French Foreign Legion. Coop is a war correspondent and author, educated at the Sorbonne under the World War II GI Bill. Coop dreams that he has been chosen to be a messenger of God. Although skeptical and unwilling at the outset, Coop undertakes the role when the evidence that he is the chosen one becomes so overwhelming he cannot deny it. |
