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The Seventies "rush" into the Eighties. The Four Fathers do their best to stay on top of the rising tide. The best thing about being adults is that you are free to act as kids. You name it- Joe, Fred, Sam, Tommy, and their cohorts in crime are ready to give it a try. Music guides their steps as they dance whether anyone is watching or not. Everyone is ready to jump head first with both feet with anybody and everybody, if only to enhance the je ne sais quoi of the tout ensemble.

A recent review of Volume Two "Huckleberry Friend" "This is an epic story, a child-man fable, the next great American novel, the incarnation of Faulkner, Joyce, Borges, Mailer, Eco and Pynchon." August 30, 1965 came early that year but the next two years lasted longer than expected. Joe Cebellum, Fred Etheridge, Tommy Wanderby, and Sam Thorn shamble from sweet innocence recently lost into the full blown tramp of the new found Summer of Love. They miss nary a beat, a frug or a twist as the travels continue from Barrington, Illinois to the Rio Grande to Montreal Expo. The times they are ...

“A wild, juicy history of four families whose lives converge in bucolic Barrington in the sixties, with a sly eye to the future. Laced with poetry, music, philosophical musings and baseball, it ranges from the Midwest to Texas, Hawaii, the Dominican Republic and beyond. It exposes the underpinnings of a seemingly perfect, privileged community, while it celebrates the singular landscapes and characters that existed in a special place and time.” Becky Harlan Laughlin Four lifelong buddies ramble on. Barrington, Illinois accedes to points South, then back to Chicago. Finally, the compass ...

The Four Fathers maintain the cool. The crazy times are captured, days without Apps, iPads, or smart phones. “Heads in the clouds” vacillate. History, philosophy, and religion are again dressed down to reckon and give account. Music continues to make the series fully charged. Above all, humor rules the day. Morning Becomes Electric is a wholly spirited eighth book, governed by enduring principles and everlasting foibles. Its acts are an entertaining progression abounding from the seven preceding Volumes. At the same time, Volume VIII stands on its own. Make sure you are greeted by the ...

The Four Fathers tale and narration continue to meander upstream and down, banging and whimpering, tell-tale and told without resolve or resolution. This book covers the Alma Mater front and center, back and forth without forgetting The Sleepy Little Village and what lies beyond . "Princeton continues to be larger than life as it takes on a new proportion consonant with history and its proper place." "Nowhere has point of view been so stood on its head as the amble continues to rise to the level of pure tamble." "As I read I feel that I have stepped in a mythological stream that satisfies ...

Flint Stones gathers an incisive edge, chipping into the temper of those times. Joe Cebellum, Tommy Wanderby, Fred Etheridge, and Sam Thorn are again on the precipice, the place where the road and the sky collide. Whether it is drinking a fifth, taking the fifth, or just five easy pieces, Flint Stones in the Nascent Circus scours the early seventies. Things that likely never happened are remembered with relish and verve. No icon is left unturned- Nixon, Vietnam, Drugs, Free Love, the Grateful Dead, even Princeton University itself. Make sure The Nascent Circus comes to your town.

Princeton’s pervasive beauty and its few warts are exposed through the lens and artistry once found only when quill met parchment. Harris, the progenitor and leading proponent of the school of "Logical Fantasy," drives an engine powered by whimsy and mirth, hell bent on finding trouble ahead and trouble behind. The pages of this book, fifth in a rollicking and ribald series, turn of their own impetus. “Slice after slice of lithe force renders to those to whom much has been given…” “The four main characters persist in each going his own way while settling into the comfort and sway ...

If the Four Fathers locking horns with the 60's isn't enough, the mother of a good friend is found dead. The case must be solved. “…A Four-Way Hit. From smoke and mirrors, from heat and light, words cascade deliciously in all directions…” “Lad” is a literary achievement. It is accessible with a depth to fathom with fond relish…” “A one of a kind Masterpiece smacks you in the face from four dimensions. This is a book for all time, for all ages, not just the old and the 'old-at-heart.'” “…with an ear, touch, and sense of dialogue that races from profound to snappy…...

Four Fathers, Volume IX, presents the question, "Is the law the only jealous mistress?" Sitting on Big Shoulders embraces my kind of town with a thrill, a consolation, a wing, and a prayer. One good deed deserves another. All kinds of kindness blaze the trail. The Four Fathers lurch head first with both feet into what is left of the Seventies. Joe Cebellum, Fred Etheridge, Sam Thorn, and Tommy Wanderby jump-start the Eighties. Travel the times with the guys who always fit right in and who always make it fitting and proper no matter how it first appears.

In twenty-five years, Chief Richard Widemarch had not seen anything like this. Sandy Millstone confessed. But the crime had only been half-committed. Annabelle Lee Suitswell was abducted. Sandy said it was only a matter of time and the deed would be done. Hers was the ultimate revenge, one amply justified. Sandy walked into the Elmhurst Police Station to confess. Sandy had “come clean,” except for one detail. She would not say where she had taken Annabelle Lee. The Chief’s only hope was that the fate of Annabelle Lee was retrievable. Could he somehow save the day? "Windward Calm" ...