David Grenville, the scion of a wealthy and influential family with roots well-entrenched in the 'American experience," meets and falls in love with Anna Kraley, the daughter of Eastern European immigrants. But their love affair is doomed from the beginning.
David is the Catholic priest of the church that Anna's family attends. When Anna discovers that she is pregnant, David's family helps her flee to Chicago where she gives birth to her son, Mark. Upon returning to her parent's home, she hides Mark's true paternity from her family and friends.
Anna also shelters Mark from the truth of...
David Grenville, the scion of a wealthy and influential family with roots well-entrenched in the 'American experience," meets and falls in love with A...
Eddie Kucera is born two months after the death of his immigrant father, who was killed in the Cherry, Illinois Mine Disaster in 1909. When his mother dies of pneumonia when Eddie was fourteen, his sisters plan to send him to an orphanage since they have no place for him in their lives.The year is 1924. He decides to run away from his family home in La Salle, Illinois in search of his only living uncle, Mike Kucera, who left Cherry in 1899 for the gold fields of Alaska when he was eighteen. In 1924, however, Mike is presently living in Oregon as a successful lumberman and has lost all contact...
Eddie Kucera is born two months after the death of his immigrant father, who was killed in the Cherry, Illinois Mine Disaster in 1909. When his mother...
Duxbury College tells the story of Daniel Tomlinson, a biology professor for thirty-three years at a small liberal arts college in central Vermont, who has experienced an eventful life: the tragic deaths of a colleague and his first wife in childbirth, the murder of one of his students, finally the result of a sordid affair he experienced while in graduate school is revealed by a surprise visitor as he enters retirement from his academic life.
The author has woven the story-in part from his own experiences at Bucknell University, and also from fictitious events that transcend the supposed...
Duxbury College tells the story of Daniel Tomlinson, a biology professor for thirty-three years at a small liberal arts college in central Vermont, wh...
"My Brother's Keeper" tells the story of two brothers, Daniel and Tom Kincaid, born ten years apart to affluent parents from Beaufort, North Carolina. Daniel becomes a successful and respected physician in his hometown community while Tom, spoiled, self-centered, and sexually manipulative becomes an alcoholic, sexual predator of women and young men.
The story follows the lives of these two brothers soon after Daniel is released from prison for taking the blame for a crime that his brother had committed eight years before in order to protect his brother. They eventually meet by chance in a...
"My Brother's Keeper" tells the story of two brothers, Daniel and Tom Kincaid, born ten years apart to affluent parents from Beaufort, North Carolina....
