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
Amelia was gifted: she could open 'windows' - enormous cracks in time and space. But just like with any treasure, she knew she had to be careful with her gift...
Reviews
<p><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;line-height:19px;">"When I got this book I didn't expect to find time to read it quickly. Investigated to see what it was about, and got snared by the story. An excess of irons in the flame to read it in one sitting - which I was slanted to do - yet more than a couple of days I soaked it up. I liked "Windows" and would recommend it to individuals who need a quick moving gripper with an exceptionally bizarre structural core."</span></p>
