All in a Lifetime - Hipp, Joe
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It has taken over 40 years to piece together the story of Anya, Willi, and the Icon, like trying to put together a priceless Faberge egg shattered intentionally without a clue as to how it once looked. Anna (Anya) and Wilhelm (Willi) lived in a small German village when we met half a century ago. Their remarkable life stories are the heart of this novel. Real life has many detours and contradictions, each piece of their stories led to another story. An Icon hung on the wall of the entry to their home and it was there that fact met fiction. Weaving related stories into this novel, preserving…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
It has taken over 40 years to piece together the story of Anya, Willi, and the Icon, like trying to put together a priceless Faberge egg shattered intentionally without a clue as to how it once looked. Anna (Anya) and Wilhelm (Willi) lived in a small German village when we met half a century ago. Their remarkable life stories are the heart of this novel. Real life has many detours and contradictions, each piece of their stories led to another story. An Icon hung on the wall of the entry to their home and it was there that fact met fiction. Weaving related stories into this novel, preserving the memory of each individual and the times in which they lived, required some manipulation of facts. It is the story of a much-travelled Icon and a treasure (not an ARC "Traveling Treasure") including the lives it touched. And it is a story of love found late in life.
Autorenporträt
Joe Hipp was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, but for nearly 50 years has called San Antonio, Texas, his home. He received a BA degree in journalism from Texas A&M University and a commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force in 1954. He served a Texas Press Association internship at the San Antonio Express-News in 1953, and before going on active duty worked as a reporter for the Jackson County Democrat. During his Air Force career, he was stationed at Ramstein AB, in Germany and met Wilhelm and Anya, a couple living nearby. Since earning a master's degree in public administration at Auburn, and retiring in San Antonio, Hipp has written several articles and published three non-fiction books. A feature story he wrote for the Jackson County Democrat, turned into A Robbery on the Iron Mountain Railroad. While working on the Express-News, he wrote R.G. Jordan's Cattle Clatter column while Jordan was on vacation. That began his interest in South Texas ranching and resulted in his writing The Oldest Ranch in Texas. A story of his mother's teaching career, Teacher, Teacher, was a family project. Meeting Wilhelm and Anya, he listened to their stories and returned to Germany after retirement to get more details and received photos used in the novel.