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Alan J. Garner

Alan J. Garner

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I am science fantasy novelist Alan J. Garner, published by SynergEbooks. Check out my Chosen Trilogy (The Chosen One, Chosen Too & Three Times Chosen) as well as Wizards' Goal, the first volume in my Terrath series.

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<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>

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<em>&quot;Once again Alan J. Garner has achieved a masterful result by weaving a great tale about the survival of prehistoric life. Like his first effort,</em> Chosen Too<em> makes for a riveting story. I found it hard to put the book down. It was an absolute pleasure to read.&quot;<br /><br /></em>Simone Outshoorn<br />Auckland, New Zealand<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><em>&quot;</em>Chosen Too<em> is a very thought-provoking and evocative tale about the emergence of man. One leaves it with the feeling that it is an episode. I will be looking forward with eager anticipation to more revealing sequels.&quot;<br /><br /></em>Gavin G.<br />Hawke's Bay, New Zealand<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------