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
I started out as a songwriter and then moved over to interviewing songwriters for a living. My first book was In Their Own Words, with 20 songwriter interviews. Then I moved on to writing non-fiction and editing magazines and producing compilations. But my first love has always been fiction, followed closely by songwriting. In this book I get to combine the two, with the story of a songwriter (using my own songs).
Reviews
"Wry, funny, knowledgeable and shrewd,its audience may well be literate, sophisticated and cynical 16 to 20 year olds..." School Library Journal.<br /><div>"Or 'literate, sophisticated and cynical' teenagers who have now grown up."</div><div>Bruce Pollock</div>
