The Winds of Change - Couverture souple

Soderberg, Dale Leroy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 141079752X ISBN 13 : 9781410797520

Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2003

Synopsis

When several newcomers join the Anglo-Saxon community on thebeautiful Costa Blanca coast in southeastern Spain, all haunted by secrets in their pasts which are exposed only through ongoing interactions in a seemingly hedonistic lifestyle, drastic changes take place in their lives. Susan Downing, the world-renowned and beloved actress, lives with a horror no one can imagine; Jack Richards is obsessed with being a successful author, an obsession even his wife, Les, does not truly understand; Harold Smythe, a block-buster author, repeatedly lures Jack into impossible competitions; Pat Kelly lives under a sentence of death. Voluntary and involuntary disclosures of their various secrets move the characters closer to new lives until Pat unintentionally sends everyone hurtling toward disaster.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Dale Soderberg had an artistic mother and a determinedfather. The result was a creativepersonality which led him from organizing and leading his own band while inhigh school and working as a commercial radio announcer to majoring in Englishat Gettysburg College and in Systematic Theology at Gettysburg LutheranSeminary. While in college he wasinspired to begin creative writing by professors who saw the glimmer of talentwhich was later used in writing sermons, short stories, and novels over a tenyear stint in the Lutheran ministry in Clarion, PA, Horseheads, NY and Syracuse, NY. However, it all came tofruition when he became a high school English teacher who specialized inteaching Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James A. Michener, Nevil Shuteand other modern authors. His firstnovel, published commercially in 1980, was an adventure/thriller built aroundthe 1967 Israeli/Arab war.Among other creative pursuits, he originated, organized, anddirected tours to Europe, the Middle East, and Lutheran mission fields inGuyana, Liberia, Tanzania, and India, many lands that have provided settingsfor his writing. Early in his teachingcareer he decided that if one were to teach Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, it was imperative that he know something aboutthe Feria of San Fermin in Pamplona,Spain. Although he has never run withthe bulls, he has watched the running during seven fiestas and become anAmerican aficionado of the bullfight. When he and his wife, Marjorie, retired they were able to expandtheir activities to include working in Yellowstone National Park and serving asvolunteer missionaries in Papua New Guinea where he taught at the University'sTeachers' College in the Eastern Highlands Province. This latter experience also offered them the opportunity totravel extensively in New Zealand, Australia, and Southeast Asia.The consequence of his many creative activities over theyears has brought him inclusion in Marquis editions of Who's Who in the East, American Educa

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouse
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 141079752X
• ISBN 13: 9781410797520
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 484
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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