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
Finally a real metaphysical interpretation:
February 12, 2009 By S. Burnett "Avid Book Reader" (Zephyrhills, FL) - See all my reviews
I was somewhat hesitant when I ordered this book, thinking just another literal rendition of the KJB. WOW! This is not only a great book, but a wonderful reference. You see, I am a metaphysical bookstore and spiritual center owner, and pastor. This is exactly what I was looking for to give Sunday lectures. (Don't like the word sermon.) Now I can use this book as a starting point for lecturing on taking back your own power and knowing that you DO create the world in which you live. Now Amazon will be sending me two of his other books. I look forward to adding them to my metaphysical reference library.
