Al Gowan, Author
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Al Gowan lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife Susan. During sabbaticals he has lived in Italy and in Spain, where he unwittingly settled in a small village a few kilometers from Palomares, where in 1966, four unfused hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped by parachute when an American B-52 collided with its tanker plane. Inspired by that setting, he wrote ZAMORA'A TATTOO, his second n… Read moreAl Gowan lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife Susan. During sabbaticals he has lived in Italy and in Spain, where he unwittingly settled in a small village a few kilometers from Palomares, where in 1966, four unfused hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped by parachute when an American B-52 collided with its tanker plane.
Inspired by that setting, he wrote ZAMORA'A TATTOO, his second novel. Gowan's collection of short stories, FORT MOMMA, includes some that appeared in literary magazines, including PLOUGHSHARES and TENNESSEE QUARTERLY. His first novel, SANTIAGO RAG, is set in Cuba during the 1898 Spanish Cuban American War. a.gowan@comcast.net
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As an author who has also written about Cuba, I welcome the addition of Enrique Clio's novel THE FARAWAY WAR, as it covers an island whose people had risen to throw off their colonial oppressors. We are treated to page turning fiction,
as the protagonist is immersed in the steaming heat and zipping bullets of a foreign war.
Clio quoted E. L. Doctorow in his preface.. .".what's the difference between a historian writing history and a novelist? ...The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like."
For THE FARAWAY WAR, Enrique Clio has searched the records of Henry Reeve, a Brooklynite who went to Cuba in 1869 as a… Read more
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
David Dobereiner's just published THE END OF THE STREET, Sustainable Growth Within Natural Limits, gives us hope that our march toward oblivion can be reversed through examples of "green" communities both large and small. Dobereiner gives examples; his model city Matripolis, his rammed earth buildings in Nepal and his Tenerife Bioclimatic Design house in the Canary Islands.
I recommend this book for design students almost as enthusiastically as I once did R. Buckminster Fuller's OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH, and Victor Papanek's DESIGN FOR THE REAL WORLD. THE END OF THE STREET will provoke discussion and convince young people to design responsibly to save the planet… Read more
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Marjorie Kanter writes in a sparing, wry and whimsical style that moves anyone who
loves to travel and observe. Her verse evokes an "Aha" as we meet a Spaniard eating potato chips with knife and fork, encounter a disoriented Moroccan during Ramadan, and smile as a Boston girl applies confidence to her lips. Kanter has lived for years in each place she writes about, so with a few words she implies entire stories.
-Al Gowan, author SANTIAGO RAG, ZAMORA'S TATTOO and FORT MOMMA.
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