Author : Harvey Swados
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480414808
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)
Book Synopsis The Unknown Constellations by : Harvey Swados
Download or read book The Unknown Constellations written by Harvey Swados and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVWhen Jack Rodenko shipped out as a sailor during World War II, he never imagined that real adventure would be waiting for him at home in New Orleans/divDIV/divDIV The Crescent City after the war is at the heart of a rapidly changing America, and ex-sailor Jack Rodenko is caught up in a strange and shifting milieu as he tends bar at a seedy club called L’Êtoile. While struggling to build a new life, Rodenko becomes involved with a corrupt, greedy power broker, and falls in love with a striking photographer—relationships that will force him to choose between two decidedly different futures./divDIV /divFirst published decades after the author’s death in 1972, The Unknown Constellations is the first novel by unsung postwar literary hero Harvey Swados. Through these pages, we can trace the origins of a unique voice and an unerring conscience. /div