Lloyd E. Gross

Broschiertes Buch

Fried Oyster Sandwich

An Alternative History in the Medium of Fiction

Beschreibung

This novel of some 230 pages presents a New Orleans family, the Kaufmanns, for four generations from 1909 to 1977. Backstory is that the Confederates won the war of 1861-65. George, the patriarch. Is an immigrant. He worked as captain of the Jackson Ave. ferry and lived in the Garden District. Mary, his wife, was an Irish butcher's daughter whose shop George often patronized. They have one son, Eric. He is twelve when his mother dies. His father is aided by two servants who live in the house. In college, Eric meets Stephanie, a half-Cherokee girl from Tulsa. Whom he courts and marries. Eric works at a newspaper. He and Stephanie have two children, Henry and Linda. Eric advances at the paper and eventually buys a camp on Lake Pontchartrain. Henry meets Renee Gautier when he rescues her from a train. They date all through high school. They have a little group that includes their neighbor, Dorothy. and Linda. After college Henry works for a radio station. He hires a Chicago man named Stanley to run the station with him. He and Renee have three children, Flavia, Martin, and Denise. Stanley marries Elizabeth, a woman who works with Dorothy. Stanley and Elizabeth have a daughter named Lisa. During a severe hurricane Henry's family takes Stanley's family in for a week. Martin, six, entertains Lisa, four, and they become close. Eventually, they marry. After time in Nashville, they return to Louisiana. Martin is elected governor in 1977.

Autor

Pastor Gross is a native of New Orleans, a city whose early 20th-century charm and idiosyncrasies he attempts to preserve in these pages, a New Orleans no longer retrievable since Katrina. He is a Lutheran pastor who served parishes for forty years before retiring in 2008. His last 29 years of active ministry he served at Christ Lutheran Church in Cleveland, Ohio. He has an intense interest in historical subjects, religion, and culture. This is reflected in this book by inventing new generations of dynasties that have become extinct. He likes to immerse his readers in the period he is presenting. He earned a B.A. from Valparaiso University (1964), a Master of Divinity from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis (B. Div.1968, later upgraded to M.Div.), and a Master of Theology from the same institution (S.T.M. 1974). He is a widower with two children and two grandchildren. He writes poetry, especially metrical Psalms. This is his first venture into fiction

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Authors' Tranquility Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781959930488
• ISBN-10: 1959930486
• Artikelnr.: 67706587