Alias the Tank [Hardcover]

Rosemary, Ph.D. Patterson (Author), Rosemary I. Patterson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 28, 2000

The scene is set as Toby Broughton, a handsome, wealthy, wheel-chair bound, New York businessman, suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and his Psychotherapist, Dr. Denise Lambert visit a now abandoned State Institution For The Retarded. Dr. Lambert insists that Toby revisit the very setting where he had been erroneously incarcerated in his teens following misdiagnosis of injuries suffered in a motor-vehicle accident to attempt to eliminate his disturbing flashbacks of the Institution.

"Alias The Tank," is the nickname of the "Access Mobility System" wheelchair which allows Toby to access stairs and handicapped-unfriendly places.

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About the Author

Rosemary I. Patterson, Ph. D., is a retired School Psychologist. Her interests include Program Evaluation, Identity Formation in Adolescence, and psychological growth processes as people react in either a negative or positive way as they encounter the adventures of life. Her first two novels were set in Hawaii, Kula Keiki Ali'i (The Chiefs' Children's School), and Kuhina Nui (Prime Minister). They were concerned with the psychological growth of high-ranking Native Hawaiians as they were subjected to culture shock with the coming of missionaries.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 164 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris Corp (August 28, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738813001
• ISBN-13: 978-0738813004
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,083,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born Vancouver, B.C. - Unusual childhood - Mother was Mentally Challenged, Father died during the war. As an only child I witnessed the unthinking behaviour of my mother's relatives towards her. Her relatives treated her as some kind of a joke and were always putting her down. The result of witnessing this treatment taught me a lot about discrimination. I pursued knowledge about mental illness when I was older eventually resulting in three University degrees including a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser Univ. and a career as a School Psychologist.

I started writing as an extension of Psychology and Education to raise awareness about various discrimination issues. I decided to write in a fictional format to reach readers about various social issues who normally did not read non-fiction. My first novel came out of my experience in my province's institution for the mentally challenged. The novel was called "Alias the Tank", the nickname for the Access Mobility Wheelchair System. A series of novels followed embedding the actual facts of the history of Hawaii from 1820 to 2000 into a five novel series to bring the actual facts alive such as the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani in 1893.

Other novels about social issues have followed including one about nuclear testing on the Mururoa Atoll, aboriginal treatment in Australia, First Nations history in British Columbia, seniors issues, culture clash in Malaysia, capitalism without social responsibility in California, and recently the terrible treatment of Sikh, Chinese and Japanese immigrants in the logging industry in B. C. at the turn of the century.

My novel "Aloha and Mai Tais" about music and musicians in the 1930's received a five star review from Midwest Book Review and my screenplay "Journey Great Barrier Reef" was a winner in the 2003 Telluride Indiefest Screenplay contest.

Currently I do Vocational Assessment in my office in beautiful Qualicum Beach, B.C. and have branched into self-help writing with the publication of my book about 55 Plus Non-Retirement Retirement called "Way of the Supernova."

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3.0 out of 5 stars Writer's Digest 10th. Annual International Self-Published Book Awards Evaluation Sheet., February 5, 2009

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Rosemary I. Patterson (Coquitlam, B.C.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alias the Tank (Kindle Edition)

Writer's Digest 10th. Annual International Self-Published Book Awards Evaluation Sheet.

What impressed you most about this book?

"What impressed me most about Alias the Tank was the overall commitment to a good premise/plot, and an especially good opening chapter. In the beginning of the book, I noted the following strengths: 1) An intriguing plot, 2) dialogue that is true to characters' voices and sounds natural and authentic, 3) an intimate first-person point of view with excellent observations, insights, and emotions. 4) nice movement and rendering of scenes, 5) a well-thought out plot structure with a series of flashbacks, 6) geat nicknames for characters, 7) nice sense of tension and 8) a convincing, terrifying scene about being paralyzed."