Sterling Conway

Sterling Conway

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I am 6'3", 195 lbs. and so handsome women cry (apologies to Sonny Bono).

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>

Story Behind The Book

Mr. Sterling H. Conway wrote The Hippo as a Family Pet as a tribute to the Dalai Lama who he thinks he won in a poker game. Mr. Conway lives in Toronto, Palm Beach and "Anywhere I can get a bed for the night." and claims to have perfected time travel and to have discovered three previously unknown planets that, he states, "Are hiding behind the sun." Last year Mr. Conway was awarded the Pulletser Prize by the Egg Marketing Board for his novel, The Yolk's On Us.

Reviews

<em></em><strong></strong><br /><strong>&quot;After you read one of Conway's books everyone else's will seem so much better.&quot;                                                               <em>Everyone else<br /><br /></em>&quot;I read this book and my acne cleared right up.&quot;         <em>Anonymous<br /></em><br />&quot;Some parts of his writing are not as bad as others.&quot;<br /><em>                                                                                      Mrs. Conway<br /></em><br /></strong>