The Time of Pedro - Cohen, Joe
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In the fifteenth century a band of Jewish and Romany travelers from Poland contrives to wend its way through the Holy Roman Empire to Spain without getting beaten, robbed, raped, forced into servitude, or killed. The manuscript of The Time of Pedro sat on Joe Cohen's desk for 34 years before this final revision. He is a lifetime resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, with interruptions for military service and peripatetic travels. Along with publishing seven novels, he has worked a variety of jobs, including news reporter, teamster, and teacher.

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Produktbeschreibung
In the fifteenth century a band of Jewish and Romany travelers from Poland contrives to wend its way through the Holy Roman Empire to Spain without getting beaten, robbed, raped, forced into servitude, or killed. The manuscript of The Time of Pedro sat on Joe Cohen's desk for 34 years before this final revision. He is a lifetime resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, with interruptions for military service and peripatetic travels. Along with publishing seven novels, he has worked a variety of jobs, including news reporter, teamster, and teacher.
Autorenporträt
Joe Cohen was born in San Francisco in 1934, the son of Sam, a policeman, andLillian, a housewife. When he was ten, the family moved to Redwood City, where hegraduated from Sequoia High School. During the Korean War he underwent intelligence and reconnaissance training and served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, though he saw no combat. After discharge, he worked a series of jobs, traveled, and eventually graduated from San Francisco State with a degree in Journalism. He married Joyce Sandell in1961 and worked for a year as a newspaper reporter in Las Vegas, After that he returned permanently to the Bay Area, where his daughter Rachel was born in 1965. He worked various jobs in the Teamsters Union for 25 years and was a substitute teacher in the Oakland School District for 22 years. During those years his marriage broke up. He has written eight books, seven of which have been published with Regent Press in Berkeley.