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The Rock
E.M. Schorb
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Needleneck (Hardcover)
E.M. Schorb
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More than half a century ago, trying to find his way out of the
chaos of a dysfunctional family that suffers from a dark secret,
eighteen-year-old Jimmy Whistler joins the Marines and is sent to
Hawaii, not yet a state, where he meets a fifteen-year-old girl,
Leilani Kona, who turns out to be the love of his life, his own
"Sweet Leilani;" but, due to her age and his sense of honor, their
love remains unconsummated. Later, shipped back to the mainland and
discharged from the Marine Corps, Jimmy makes a false start in New
York City as an actor, falling in with a show business crowd, and,
still later, with a band of hippies, all the while trying to
perfect his true calling as a writer who is attempting to discover
order in a chaos that now appears to be not merely personal but
public. How Jimmy and Leilani find each other again in the midst of
this private and public chaos is a story both comic and tragic. A
Portable Chaos is an historical novel that brings to life the
transformation of the United States from the conforming Fifties to
the volcanic social eruptions of the "swinging" Sixties-from the
private chaos of Jimmy Whistler's childhood to the public chaos of
his youth, the former shaping himself, the latter shaping all
Americans.
Leo Yankevich is among the greatest living poets in the
English-speaking world, and TIKKUN OLAM is his most important
collection of poems to date. Not only does he give voice to the 90
million martyrs to communism stuffed down the memory hole in the
last 100 years, but he provides insight into the machinations
taking place today that undermine Western man, and unmasks a
sobering portent for the future, although not without offering an
epilogue of courage and hope.
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Scott Westerfeld
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