About
At age 79, I consider myself a writer Grandma Moses with the publication of my first Kindle Ebook, The Devil's Newspaper, six murderous and dark tales. However, unlike Grandma Moses, my medium is the written word rather than paint on canvas.I've been married twice, have four children, six grandchildren and two dogs, and am a compulsive crossword puzzle junkie, eclectic reader, gadget freak, knitter, recipe collector, and a not-so-hot, but enthusiastic, tap-dancer. I received a BA in English in 1954 upon graduation from Smith College, Northampton, MA, and have continued my passion for the written word in a variety of ways. I write a blog, Off My Rocker, and wrote two shows when I lived in Scarsdale, NY (as Nancy Conn). I also wrote the lyrics and libretto of My Millionaire, based on Mark Twain's The Million Pound Note. My earlier book, H.E.A.V.E.N. (Homeland Equitable Alliance for a Victimless Economy and Nation) also available on Amazon, is an over-the-top comedy/murder/romance set in the future. The main character, Sarah, a gorgeous ninety-four- year-old who hardly looks fifty thanks to rejuvenation procedures, resolves to escape the death sentence scheduled to take place on her upcoming birthday. It will soon be published as an Ebook on Kindle.
Description
<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>
Story Behind The Book
In the title story, indifference in a marriage threatens its survival and, ultimately, the life of a spouse. In Allison, a stolen night with a lover leads to death; in Causa Mortis, a woman attempts to prevent a death by in-law; in A Good Woman, Aunt Jane misleads her family into the very horror they are trying to avoid; in Clutter in the Attic, compulsive hoarding weakens a marriage and leads to retribution; and in Under Wraps, a suburban mother wreaks revenge on behalf of two little girls.
