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
After giving a consultation about required treatment plan, patients would always say on leaving office"Wish I knew that". I wrote this book to inform potential patients what they need to know about vein disease, how to choose a doctor, what are the best types of treatment that always work. I tell people how to get reimbursed from their insurance carriers when they are denied. This system works 100% of the time. Lastly, I inform the inquisitive reader about National Health Insurance. Since I worked under this system in Canada and observed it in Germany, I am a credible authority about it and it's failure.
