Manus Anthony Edwards

Oscar and Willie

Wild Western Novel (Volume One)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Oscar & Willie is fictional in part and non-stereotypical in the traditional sense of how wild-wild western novels and screen scripts were written and or produced back in the day. The author, Manus Anthony Edwards Sr. is a retired Cable Construction Manager from AT&T in Chicago Illinois. This masterpiece of a novel and possible screen-play is dedicated to Eddie Edwards, Manus Edwards, Sr.'s father. This novel is an attempt to correct and or place a more favorable spin on the level and degree of involvement, people of color had in developing the Wild, Wild West. Those, who comprise Manus Anthony Productions, are making a bold attempt to place all motion picture producers and writers, who portrayed people of color as being entirely subservient to all whites, in check. This type of novel was always referred to as a shoot-em-up, by African American, senior males in particular. This novel reveals the true relationships between the Native people, referred to as Indians/Savages, freed and not yet freed descendants of slaves, African Mexicans, African Chinese and African Caucasians and how they coexisted on the western frontier. Oscar & Willie is intended, in many ways, to bridge the infamous gap caused by missing and misinformation relative to the false picture painted by the motion picture industry about the West. It also speaks to the core issue of why people of color have compassion for the Caucasian, (colorless off-spring). "Oscar & Willie" has a likeness to the movies, Silverado, Tombstone, Posse and D'Jango Unchained and could be a sequel to them, as well. These movies were favorites of Eddie Edwards (now deceased), who insisted that Manus Sr. view most of these movies with him, over and over. Immediately afterwards, they would spend hours talking about each character and circumstance. He passed away March of 2001, leaving Manus with the memories of exchanging dialogue with him, relative to the old and the new shoot-em-ups, that Manus began to entertain the idea of writing a western novel. Manus Sr. was always quietly annoyed by the obvious absence and or degrading manner in which all people of color were treated in the movies. It was Manus' opinion that the Motion Picture Industry was never obligated to produce a true characterization of people of color or interpret their cultures and interpersonal relationships accurately, so they didn't. However, he vowed that his western novel would be a piece of ingenious work and everything he felt should be written in it would tell the true story of his most inner feelings about westerns. Manus named the novel in memory of twin boys he came to know at Saint Elizabeth grammar school. Other than those well-known persons to whom references are made, that are coincidental to the plot, and characters in this piece of work are creations of Manus Sr. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Where the names of the actual persons or places are mentioned, the situations, occurrences, and descriptions relating to them, and any statements and dialogues that may be attributed to them, are completely fictional and are not to be construed as defaming, real or factual. This is a must and easy read, which is the most mind boggling, dramatic, compassionate and entertaining, novel, you have ever read. If you're presently sitting on the fence of life, not really knowing where you are in the world today as a person or waiting for someone to tell you; you might just end your frustrations after reading this novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indy Pub
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 697g
• ISBN-13: 9781087945743
• ISBN-10: 1087945747
• Artikelnr.: 62271845

Autorenporträt

MANUS ANTHONY EDWARDS is a lifetime resident of Chicago's Southside, born May 25, 1942 in the Bronzeville community at 4312 South Michigan Ave. He attended Bethel AME Church Nursery School, (Pre-school) at 4454 South Michigan Ave., St. Anselm Grammar and St. Elizabeth High Schools. He attended Roosevelt University studying Industrial Labor & Management Relations and Transactional Analysis for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, (IBEW) Local # 165. He also studied the Theory of Combustible Engines at Greer Tech Auto Shop. Manus has twice married and divorced and was blessed with 6 daughters and 2 sons, all grown and gone, doing their thing; and he has 18 grand-children and four great-grands. He worked several jobs all over Chicago, but served 8 years at US Steel, South Works Plant as an overhead crane and forklift operator and retired from AT&T as a Cable Installation & Maintenance Manager. Manus was thrust, by his family into two life-long, occupational modes, which were taking notes of events, circumstances and accountability in collecting gigs and distributing drawings for the local policy wheel in his pre-teen years. These, modes of conduct led to dispute resolution, in the workplace and grassroot politics. He learned how to write Grievances at US Steel and used his experiences to organize several successful walk-outs, while being a Shop Steward (IBEW) at Illinois Bell that brought about equal access and fairness for Black and Brown telephone men and women relative to the distribution of scheduled overtime, selection of training classes and dispatched assignments. Manus was the first African American telephone man/Shop Steward in Chicago to bill the Union for all of his time spent conducting Union business, while on or off the job. This was an unprecedented move by Manus, which ultimately exposed the sweetheart arrangement the Union had with the Company. He then made an unsuccessful run for President of IBEW, local #165. Manus believes to this day that the Union bosses got together with IBT officials to promote him into a management position, (which he accepted) in order to fire him, and it almost worked. Manus, at that point, had no representation; and as a consequence, was shifted around to all undesirable management positions and given unobtainable objectives to accomplish. He was finally assigned a position where he was (unbeknownst to the bosses who placed him there), the first and only African American to manage the prestigious Cable Locating Bureau (CLB), located in Room #1603 at 311 West Washington Street. It wasn't until the late 80's that his bosses were made to realize that an African American, namely Manus A. Edwards was and had been holding down this prestigious position and supervising an all-White crew to do it. Shortly thereafter, Manus opted to take advantage of the early retirement plan and went to work for himself; and he never looked back. Manus' lengthy involvements in politics range from grade school in 1954 when he went to work for Richard J. Daley to 2015 when he went to work for candidate, Ald. Gregory Mitchell of the 7th Ward. Over a span of sixty years, Manus has involved himself in various political campaigns in many different capacities for a litany of major Black candidates in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. Now, as a retiree, Manus has devoted full time to writing political speeches, songs, wild western, fiction novel Oscar & Willie and "Memoirs of an Angry Black Chicago Telephone Man. Oscar & Willie: Wild Western Novel (Volume One) is Manus A. Edwards' first published book. Oscar & Willie: Wild Western Novel (Volume Two) will follow shortly.