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Location: Birmingham England
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Name; Fred Harvey DOB May 3,1946 email lorenellroy@yahoo.co.uk Home;England Job.Community Regeneration Manager.Spells working construction,conservation ,and factory labouring and trucking before getting degree ,done HR work and work with young homeless people Politics and History graduate with interest in USA and WW2 Loves; Sport especially cricket ,boxing and soccer Storytellers: in wor… Read moreName; Fred Harvey
DOB May 3,1946
email lorenellroy@yahoo.co.uk
Home;England
Job.Community Regeneration Manager.Spells working construction,conservation ,and factory labouring and trucking before getting degree ,done HR work and work with young homeless people
Politics and History graduate with interest in USA and WW2
Loves;
Sport especially cricket ,boxing and soccer
Storytellers: in words (Shakespeare,Dickens,Hammett,The Hag,Hank)pictures(Hitchcock,Wyler,Ford,Kurosawa)sound (Sibelius,Barber/The Boss )
Loves travel especially in Anglophone nations
Music is an inordinate passion especially country,blues and jazz
Hates. MTV,rap music(its an oxymoron)Hollywood's demonization of my country and being called 'European'
Heaven is;watching England regain the Ashes,followed by Patsy and Hank in concert,followed by a bull session with Dorothy Parker,Bogart and watching a video of Lewis v Tyson,or Rio Bravo(OR BOTH INDEED)before going to bed with a good book.
Gregarious and sociable but opinionated.
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It is good to see this work at long last available in the form its author Les Savage intended .Savage -whose tragically early death at age 35 robbed the Western of a potentially highly significant writer -originally wrote the tale as a long short story , or short novel if you will ,and in this form it was published by the Zane Gray "Western Magazine" in 1953 .Savage declared his intention to expand the tale into a full length novel and -as so many times in his brief career -was bedevilled by editorial interference and the resulting work when published was nothing like his original vision. The book is set on the Mississippi between 1809 and 1812 .Its protagonist is Owen Naylor a… Read more
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This novel is thematically a Western although its settings are non -traditional for the genre .Much of the book is set in Alaska when it was owned by Russia and was the focus of a concerted attempt by some US politicians to acquire the territory from its exploitative owners ,A key section takes place in Siberia and at the court of the Czar in St Petersburg .Throw in lenghty sections set a sea , including a rousing sea battle and you have several elements not normally found in the archetypal Western ,Yet ,withal ,a Western it is, with Cossacks standing in for Native Americans and Russian aristocrats as the despoilers and bandits . The hero is a typical L'Amour protagonist .Jean LaBarge… Read more
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This pastiche Holmes novel opens promisingly when the great consulting detective and loyal companion Watson are interrupted in their Baker Street home by the erruption into their lives of a harried and dishevelled Professor Mainwaring .He tells of how he took his wife to see the doctor ,whereopon both the wife and doctoe promptly vanished .The nurse claims she was never a patient of te doctor .On returning home he finds that the house locks have been changed and another man is claiming to be the owner of the property and there are no records of his existence . Intrigued Holmes takes the case and discovers that it is linked to Mannering'swork as an inventor and in particular his… Read more
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