Ashland

Dan Simon

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Verlag:: Europa Editions, 03/2027
Einband:: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Sprache:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9798889662402
Umfang:: 208 Seiten
Erscheinungstermin:: 16.3.2027
Hinweis: Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!

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Klappentext

"Dan Simon's family drama ponders life's joys and losses using a patchwork of first-person narratives...A refreshingly meditative, modern Our Town  with a hat tip to the blessings of nature, books, and writing."--Christian Science Monitor**

A deeply moving family story unfolding in richly evocative prose during the final decades of the American century, Ashland is a book of metamorphoses--of the dance between permanence and transformation.

Ashland, New Hampshire, is a mill town in the lakes region that has seen better days but whose inhabitants possess a capacity for resilience and spirit of quiet defiance. These qualities seem to find an echo in the harsh but beautiful natural world around them. Six voices animate the story at the heart of Ashland and give voice to the town itself. Carolyn is twenty years old and at a turning point in her life; Gordon the octogenarian who arrived in Ashland in the twilight of his years; Andy is a local boy; Geoff is Carolyn's writing teacher at Plymouth State; Edith, Gordon's wife, inadvertently becomes Carolyn's spiritual guide and friend; and Jennie, Carolyn's aunt, seems to offer her niece a model for how to live. But things aren't always what they seem.

Dan Simon's debut novel brings to life six vivid characters and is both a tribute to the wild landscapes of New England and a lyrical ode to small-town America.

Biografie

Dan Simon is a contributing author for Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, he is also a regular contributor to the Growing Edge and Pennsylvania magazines. Dan has more than 25 years experience as a journalist and photographer. He began his career as a Navy journalist with assignments aboard several ships, and in Norfolk, VA, Dededo, Guam, and McMurdo Station, Antarctica. After leaving the service in 1990, Dan worked as a river guide and photographer on Pennsylvania's Lehigh River. During the past 10 years, he's worked as a writer and photographer for several Pennsylvania and New Jersey newspapers, including the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader and Allentown Morning Call. His writing and photography have appeared in numerous books, magazines, web sites, and newspapers, including: The New York Times; ESPN; National Geographic Reference Atlas of North American Birds, Fifth Edition; Mid-Atlantic Real Estate Journal; Baltimore Daily Record; Tri-State Real Estate Journal; Corridor Real Estate Journal; All Hands magazine; Army Times; Gloucester County Times; White Haven Journal Herald; Butler Eagle; www.greenworks.tv; and www.drexel.edu/doj/gallery.asp. Dan is currently working on a master's degree in communications from Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA). Dan holds a bachelor's degree in general studies (design arts) from Drexel and an associate's in computer graphic arts from Gloucester County College (Sewell, NJ). He is also a graduate of the military's Defense Information School (Information Specialist Journalist and Broadcaster and Intermediate Photojournalism).