Steven Key Meyers

A Family Romance (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Family Romance sweeps through more than 40 years serving up tasty-and profoundly true-takes on American life.

In the first part of this family saga, we meet Nat and Viv Handler at their 1959 arrival in Washington, D.C., Viv a devoted mother and wife, Nat a journalist. When he stumbles upon the untold story of President Kennedy's womanizing, Nat sets out to report on it. But the more he tries to get the facts from the President's sexiest mistress, the more he puts his job-and his marriage-at risk.

Then we make the acquaintance of Nat and Viv as students in Colorado during World War II. Viv's involved with J.T.-her handsome bad boyfriend-and Nat is stalking them. It's a scene of Swing Era dances, steamy backseats and rationed Coca-Cola, as J.T.-dragging Viv and Nat along-works steadily towards his fate.

Years later, in the 1980s, we follow Viv and Nat at the height of their careers through the course of a single day. Living a busy but comfortable life in New York City, Nat's a magazine editor and Viv runs her own business. Looking forward to the future, but inescapably aware of the past, they walk to work, negotiate their offices and office mates, solve crises, go shopping, see a play. Viv rescues an old friend, while Nat inadvertently brings disaster upon a colleague. Fortunately, art reconciles everything in the end.

With its wonderful characters and inspired and true-to-life action, A Family Romance is an irresistible tour de force.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Steven Key Meyers/The Smash-and-Grab Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798985021547
• Artikelnr.: 65925054

Autorenporträt

Steven Key Meyers was born on a farm in western Colorado and studied English Lit at CCNY and Columbia. He has self-published numerous novels, including Good People ("a crackling good read"-Toronto Post City Magazines); Queer's Progress; My Mad Russian: Three Tales ("dense, exciting novellas about love and greed"-Kirkus Reviews); Springtime in Siena; The Wedding on Big Bone Hill; All That Money ("the kind of novel Chandler or Hammet might write today"-M. Lee Alexander); Another's Fool ("confident and stylish"-Kirkus); The Last Posse and Junkie, Indiana ("skillfully captures the grim depths"-Kirkus), books that chronicle a great nation's precipitous decline. He is also the author of a memoir of being a teenaged underbutler, I Remember Caramoor: A Memoir and of a biographical study of a once-famous American painter, The Man in the Balloon: Harvey Joiner's Wondrous 1877, and most recently of a book of plays, A Journal of the Plague Year, and Other Plays and Adaptations.