Robert H Cherny

Rookery Island (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"Rookery Island" consists of the combined four works of the Stu Greene series. Stu Greene is a high school junior on the cusp of the transition from amateur to professional photographer. Skilled and creative, his photographs are routinely published in newspapers and are proudly displayed in local offices. He "accidentally" encounters a girl for whom he takes on a project to create a wild bird rookery from a large drainage pond adjacent to their high school. That chance encounter changes not only their lives but those of their families and friends as the young man carries them along in his drive to create a lasting monument of his love.
In the second book, Stu rescues his girlfriend's college roommate's sister from an abusive relationship. He hides the sisters and his girlfriend on his uncle's citrus farm. While there, his roommate falls in love with his girlfriend's roommate, his cousin falls in love with the sister, they bust a corrupt FBI agent, and Stu performs a rescue at sea. It's just another day at the office for a journalism student in his sophomore year.
In the third book of the series, a successful software executive inherits a run-down zoo and water park when most men his age would be retiring. Even his depth of business experience is not enough to keep his adversaries at bay, so he resorts to tactics not usually associated with legitimate businesses.
The fourth volume in the series chronicles the one-year-long voyage that Stu and several of his friends take on a floating video studio that is not exactly what it seems to be.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Robert H Cherny
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005899196
• Artikelnr.: 70635920

Autorenporträt

Writing has always gotten me in trouble. Still does.

I have been a fan of science and speculative fiction since I found it in the young people's section of the library. In grade school, I devoured works by Heinlein, Norton, Asimov, and Huxley among others. By the time I had finished high school, I had read every science fiction book in the town's library.

When I was in high school I wrote short stories instead of paying attention in math class. This did not help my math grade and would have serious consequences a few years later.

In college, I could be counted on for the divergent opinion. This was after my failed math forced a complete redirection of my life plan. A disastrous Freshman year at Brandeis University, forced a reevaluation of reading materials. Switching majors to theater brought exposure to Shaw, Strindberg, Ibsen, Stoppard, Pinter, Shakespeare, and a host of young would-be playwrights. As a technical theater major, I found that the quantity of material to which I was exposed often surpassed the quality. Too busy to do any writing of his own, I devoted his time to supporting the efforts of others.

The Vietnam War brought a tour of duty in South Carolina and the opportunity to begin graduate work at the University of South Carolina. While in the Air Force, my anti-war sentiments did not become an issue, because I kept them secret. I did no writing except for my graduate school classes which I took while still in service. Even here, I was ever the contrarian, unwilling or unable to go where the others went. Fortunately, as a design major, my writing was of less concern than my draftsmanship. The war ended and with less than a month to go on my MA, and no job opportunities in sight, I left school lacking only my thesis and took a paying job at Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus World in Haines City Florida Master's degrees in the theater were not worth much in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

Fortunately, through a series of unlikely coincidences, I landed a job as technical director of the then brand new Tupperware Convention Center. At the time, it was the only full-time convention center in Central Florida. I would stay there for twenty years earning an MBA along the way although my work schedule left little time for either reading or writing except for articles in technical journals.

My sudden departure from Tupperware provided the time to return to reading and writing...