What is the main theme of this book? Well, one could suspect that it was about music, but that would be only partially correct. Or about prostitution since the story is laced with Sophia and Aunt Clara, two ladies that are in the business? Well, not so again. Perhaps What shouldn't be the question anyway. Perhaps who is the question we should explore? Who are the characters that bring our story to life? Romance? Absolutely Love? You betcha. Hmmm Sounds familiar, like hasn't someone else written this stuff? Of course I think one of those stories was, "War and Peace," or "Romeo and...

What is the main theme of this book? Well, one could suspect that it was about music, but that would be only partially correct. Or about prostitution since the story is laced with Sophia and Aunt Clara, two ladies that are in the business? Well, not so again. Perhaps what shouldn't be the question anyway. Perhaps who is the question we should explore? Who are the characters that bring our story to life? Romance? Absolutely Love? You betcha. Hmmm Sounds familiar, like hasn't someone else written this stuff? Of course I think one of those stories was, "War and Peace," or "Romeo and...

What is the main theme of this book? Well, one could suspect that it was about music, but that would be only partially correct. Or about prostitution since the story is laced with Sophia and Aunt Clara, two ladies that are in the business? Well, not so again. Perhaps what shouldn't be the question anyway. Perhaps who is the question we should explore? Who are the characters that bring our story to life? Romance? Absolutely Love? You betcha. Hmmm Sounds familiar, like hasn't someone else written this stuff? Of course I think one of those stories was, "War and Peace," or "Romeo and...

The struggles of a young man's ambivalence between traditional jazz clarinet and concert piano. His great romance and love for a woman who helps him make up his mind and the various escapades along the way.

The story takes readers through a couplel decades, tracing the life of John (Jack) Dupree from his days as a wartime New Orleans street kid of eleven through his ups-and-downs as a musician, friend, lover, and human being. The part of the portrait that illumines Jack's coming of age in the 1950s, a section that includes his service in the Korean War, is even better at capturing the feel of a decade than the delineation of the other periods - and this sense of time and place (including St. Louis and New York) is always keen. Jack's early education takes place in the saloons and jazz clubs of...

"Memoirs of a Hooker" is a story of pleasure and pain, where lost ideals leave voids with moments of ephemeral fixes. It's a story of brutality, where the psyche is the victim and the mores of society, the instrument of a besieging consequence; sparing some while impinging others with its stinging barbs of inequality. Buried so shallow beneath the consciousness of life's outer shell a truth lay upon the ground shaken from the tree of life like fresh fruit fallen from its branches. Through the life of a young man, who is weak in the area of passionate restraint, we witness his pursuit of...

"Beyond The Curtain" A Story of Illusion The following preview will serve to illustrate where my story is heading. My story, "Beyond The Curtain: A Story of Illusion" begins in London due to its connection to The Bank of England. While the threat may be world-wide I shall simply concentrate on the U. S. arena. While my story is fictionalized, it is based on many scholarly reports and the investigations that serve to show the pervasiveness of corruption in the monetary system and how debt serves its masters while impoverishing the many. You may learn some startling facts along the way. The...