LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david solbach

6 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david solbach

  • A Hard Zero to Swallow
    David Solbach
    These poems are a sequel to a previous collection titled Painted Toes and Other Mistakes, which was begun in the spring of 2020. Having since then become an octogenarian, I greet each day with gratitude for being alive, and for the privilege of reflecting on completion of the principal goals I set for myself as a young man. I could die tomorrow and count myself the luckiest man...
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  • So Glad I’m Glad I’m Glad
    David Solbach
    Burney Sundin is an educated young man of the 1960s who is uncomfortable with conventional lifestyles and has settled into San Francisco’s underworld out of attraction for the beat-hipster social experiment percolating in the low-rent Haight-Ashbury district. He enjoys the community of rock-n-roll, drugs, and organic meals, but mystical hedonism leaves him dissatisfied and in n...
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  • Stonepacker’s Gold, and Fathers
    David Solbach
    Stonepacker’s Gold is the story of young Willie Urgang’s arrival in Salt Lake City, 1920. Fleeing a bad marriage back home in Kansas, he is quickly drawn into a romance, and through it into a convoluted struggle to obtain a stack of gold plates. So far as the Church of Latter-day Saints is concerned, the plates are worth much more than their weight, because they are rumored to ...
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  • First There Was Music
    David Solbach
    This is the story of a Kansas farm boy, a third generation son of German immigrants, growing up in the fifties of Eisenhower, black and white TV, racial and sexual prejudice so ubiquitous, so much a matter of the woodwork, that most white citizens, especially men, were not even aware of it. A reality our character gradually understands as he matures through small town fisticuff...
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  • Painted Toes and Other Mistakes
    David Solbach
    These two groups of poems represent opposite ends of a life. Painted Toes and Other Mistakes was begun with the arrival of Covid in the spring of 2020, my seventy-eighth year. So You Bend Silk was completed in the national bicentennial year of 1976, the same year I finished So Glad I’m Glad I’m Glad, my first novel, and abandoned words for carpentry, then jazz. Forty-three year...
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  • In the Shadow of the Plague
    David Solbach
    IN THE SHADOW OF THE PLAGUE is an environmental and family saga set in the Eugene area of Western Oregon. Delbert Killian is a hardy, opinionated, builder and landlord of seventy years who has a bisexual girlfriend half his age, is in the middle of divorcing his latest wife, and still chops his own firewood. Delbert has been designated executor of a distant relative’s trust, wh...
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