Dr. Sally's Voodoo Man - Bruce, Mary Hanford
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What they're saying about this brilliant first novel: "¿bold exploration of a woman adrift in Africa, caught in the turmoil of her own defeated past and in the possibilities offered by her current swirls of chaos. It's a compelling story, told with authority and grace." Fred Leebron Author of Out West, Six Figures, and In the Middle of All This "¿ a maiden novel rife with compact, memorable word pictures." J. Dwight Dobkins Co-author of Winnie Ruth Judd: The Trunk Murders "¿refreshing, well-told story written with a combination of force and sensitivity that captures the wondrous complexities…mehr

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What they're saying about this brilliant first novel: "¿bold exploration of a woman adrift in Africa, caught in the turmoil of her own defeated past and in the possibilities offered by her current swirls of chaos. It's a compelling story, told with authority and grace." Fred Leebron Author of Out West, Six Figures, and In the Middle of All This "¿ a maiden novel rife with compact, memorable word pictures." J. Dwight Dobkins Co-author of Winnie Ruth Judd: The Trunk Murders "¿refreshing, well-told story written with a combination of force and sensitivity that captures the wondrous complexities of Africa, its people, and the precious vulnerability of the human experience." Freddie Lee Johnson III Author of Bittersweet and A Man Finds His Way "¿an incomparable source of information on the African experience. After reading the book, I felt as if I had been on a trip to Cameroon." Alma H. Bond, Ph.D. Author of Who Killed Virginia Woolf? "In Dr. Sally, Mary Hanford Bruce has created a complex character as driven by her need for love as she is by her desire to grow. The African jungle is a rich landscape for this desperate search for self-awareness." Dr. Kathleen DeGrave Author of Company Woman
Autorenporträt
Mary Hanford Bruce's poems and stories have been published in the United States, Brussels, Israel, Cameroon and Zimbabwe. The second edition of her poetry collection, Holding to the Light, was released early in 2003. Dr. Sally's Voodoo Man is her first novel, inspired in part by her two years as a Fulbright Scholar in Cameroon. The award-winning poet is Professor of English at Monmouth College, Illinois where she teaches Creative Writing. She has two more Dr. Sally adventures in the works: Dr. Sally¿s Mossad Man Dr Sally¿s Muscovite Man. She is nearing completing of a nonfiction work, I Remember Germany. This is how she introdues that work, which is of high post-World War II historical interest: I Remember Germany when the buildings were rubble, the country split by four nations and both conquerors and conquered hungry. Yet, as a ten-year-old thrust into post-war wrangling over the assets of Alfried Krupp, Hitler¿s financier, I was hungry for understanding, not food. For two fateful years I played in Villa Hugel, Krupp¿s palace, where the allies had offices, so was ¿the fly on the wall¿ during international decision-making. As I played Jacks in the Great Hall, I sensed confusion and evil underlying smooth diplomatic surfaces. When the mission crumbled because of a desperate move by our government to mitigate Cold War threat, I felt sad but not surprised. The author was born in Washington, DC and brought up in Europe and the Southwestern United States. Dr. Sally's Voodoo Man and Holding to the Light are available in e-book editions at Smashwords.