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Featured Authors
JoJaSell invites authors to contribute to this home page - Our current Featured Author is Maribeth Kuzmeski author of The Connectors which is about relationships critically important in business and how to make them better for better business. Donna Sozio who has developed an interesting skill of weighing up the fellas from the kind of shoes they wear. Weeding out The Good, The Bad, and the damn right Ugly. Donna tells us about how this all started and how she helps people find the right partner, just by looking at their shoes. She talks about her great book - Never Trust A Man In Alligator Loafers - and provides some insight into this interesting phenomena. Marian Baker who describes her life, her work, and her book - Wake Up Inspired. "Marian makes an utterly persuasive case that success in the 21st century requires a combination of spirit and strategy. Smart professionals who want to wake up each morning looking forward to the day ahead should grab this book." - says Dan Pink, author of A Whole New Mind, former speech-writer for Al Gore Other Featured Authors
Terri Lee Ryan, talked about why she wrote her new book 'Life Is One Big To-Do List". Terri is working on a concept reality show for the states, a project we hope to feature early next year. David Freemantle talks about his life and how his passion for writing started early-on, took a break, and then rekindled. He tells us about his hugely successful book Wanted which is available at all good books shops, including WHSmiths and on-line at Amazon or JoJaSell eStores. Ellen Rogin tells us about her book Great With Money, and a little about herself. She makes us think about abundance, rather than what we normally think about, scarcity, to help us make our wealth build. Ellen is currently involved with promoting Abundance Activist wristbands, a non-profit endeavour.
Bringing some reality to our dreams,Kelly Sullivan Walden talks to JoJaSell about her work and how she became the Dream Doctor. All the
symbolism of dreams have meaning and Kelly has helped so many to make some sense from their dreams. JoJaSell is currently
working with Kelly and the Woman's National Book Association (WNBA) to promote the work of women authors in the States
on JoJaSell WNBA. If you want to buy our featured author's books go to any of our eStores on this site, select books, and then search for the authors name or click on the following links Terri Lee Ryan, Ellen Rogin, Kelly Sullivan Walden, David Freemantle, Marian Baker, Donna Sozio, or Margaret Karlin. JoJaSell is working with the WNBA to set up a dedicated page to
the WNBA on this site. Joan Gelfand President of the WNBA refers to JoJaSell in short form as JJS. Joan has been
enormously supportive of the initiative, thank you Joan.
Featured Author
Maribeth
Kuzmeski talks to JoJaSell about her book - The Connectors
I wrote The Connectors knowing that relationships are critically important in business. The key isn’t knowing relationships are important, though. The key is knowing what to do to make them better. Through interviews of hundreds of successful businesspeople, CEO’s and founders of companies, I sought to detail the tangible how to’s of creating better business relationships. In the book, "The Connectors" I’ve outlined the approaches used by the world’s most prolific connectors that have lead to their ability to create powerful business relationships.
So, what is it that makes the world's most successful individuals so good at their jobs? What do they do that others don't? The Connectors answers those questions with the kind of straightforward wisdom that business strategists so often overlook. Forget marketing tactics or business school best practices. Those are handy, but it's really people—and the relationships you build with them—that form the cornerstone of long-term success, sales growth, and excellence.
Whether you're a salesperson, an entrepreneur, or an executive, your ultimate job is to bring in clients
and keep them. The Connectors presents a five-step methodology that helps you build the kind of high-quality relationships
that lead to lifelong clients, repeat customers, and endless referrals.
The Connectors: How
The World’s Most Successful Businesspeople Build Relationships and Win Clients for Life.
Previous Featured Authors
Margaret
Karlin talks to JoJaSell about her life, and her new project - Virtuous Women
I wrote
Virtuous Women because I am a member of the 'Silent Generation', and felt badly about how it compared to The Greatest
Generation. It seemed to me to write about it in the context of the times would help to explain how it laid the foundation
for the many changes that were to come in the sixties-- integration, mental illness, and women's roles.
In the 1950s, four
young women find themselves on diverse yet parallel paths as they mature and grow in the repressive Eisenhower era. ( Kate,
Rebecca, and Sue Ann) work as nurses at a large Chicago medical complex and live at a home for recently graduated ( see white
unmarried) nurses. This old mansion, situated in a rapidly changing neighborhood, is called Kenwood House. The fourth, (June),
recently married has moved to a split level in the suburbs -- achieving what society feels is the ultimate dream of every
right-thinking woman. It is a lesson on how fleeting life can be. Because they live in an era where appearances
are more important than truth they come to realize the danger of hidden truths -- speak out against the turmoil that rages
beneath false images -- they will no longer be silent members of the 'silent generation.'
I grew up in Scotland and returned to Chicago as a teenager so know what it is like to be an outsider. I always wanted
to write and when a student nurse loved writing case studies. As a graduate nurse I published an article on mental health
but never thought I would have the luxury of writing a novel. I am now putting together a memoir called, Dumbarton, the
Journey Back. Dumbarton is the town I lived in during WW11. it was subject to heavy bombing and I was evacuated
too the Scottish Highlands. In it I compare that battle to my battle with cancer.
Shoe-ologist
Donna Sozio talks to JoJaSell about how she became a shoe-ologist and explains her new book - Never Trust
A Man In Alligator Loafers
People often ask me how I became a Shoe-ologist and why I wrote my book Never Trust a Man in Alligator Loafers. Since I can remember, like some people read palms, I read people by their shoes. When my friends and I began dating in high school, I started giving love advice based on… yes you guessed it, men’s shoes. Just from my friends’ descriptions of their love interests’ Creepers, Vans and Converse (it was the late 80’s), I was able to tell if they were a match – or not.
After nearly 20 years of giving my friends love and life advice based on shoes, enough people asked me to write a book that I finally did it. So here we are… Never Trust a Man in Alligator Loafers was born. And since Tyra Banks dubbed me a Shoe-ologist the rest is history. I hope you’ll read my book so you can find out if your guy is right for you… or if he’s just another (shoe) frog.
Today I do Shoe Personality Predictions for Louis Vuitton, Macys, Cole Haan and more. Everyday people email me for their own Shoe Personality Predictions. Feel free to be one of them. You can always reach me at donnasozio@gmail.com. I love what I do. Changing your shoes is easy, fun, and most importantly it can get you where you want to go in life in record time. Whatever you want more of, you can get it just by a proper shoe fix.
Marian
Baker talks to JoJaSell about her life, work and book - Wake Up Inspired
"Joy is the essence of success," my tea tag tells me--just as I sit to write about my book at Jon’s request for Jojasell. How perfect. That could be the answer to what inspired me to write this book. So many bright, successful professionals come to me seeking "something more," to make a change in their lives and even make a difference in the world, but not knowing how. They say, "Am I your only client that feels this way?
I felt called to write Wake Up Inspired to spread the encouraging news that millions of us are now in a "revolution" of waking up to a whole new story of how we create success for our healthier, joyful, truly prosperous future. I’m so excited about how this is evolving into equipping professionals to be the new kinds of conscious leaders we need. We’re having fun with a new Inspired Leadership/Chief Inspiration officer program and toolkit. I just got an email from someone talking about how this work is changing his life. I’m so grateful for the privilege of this work and humbled for the joy I feel in my own life today.
Once upon a time I was trying hard to achieve success according to the formulas I’d been taught and inherited. Born in 1961, educated in the 70’s and in 1983 hit Chicago’s Michigan Avenue in an advertising career. Close your eyes and see this earnest little account exec in my burgundy bow tie, white button down blouse, navy suit, burgundy briefcase and pumps. All that burgundy leather was called Oxblood. This should have been a warning clue right there! LOL We don’t dress that way anymore. We shouldn’t be trying to achieve success in those old story ways anymore either.  More and more people want to combine mind-body-spirit growth and real
world achievement. They want pragmatic how-to support, not just parables. Unfortunately, this is not really taught
in school, on the job or hardly anywhere else. The Wake Up Inspired book offers a roadmap and tools to begin that journey. My hope is that it will serve as a launch pad for the transformation of
your life, livelihood and leadership that is your path of Joy. About
Marian Baker:
Super
Boss, David Freemantle talks to JoJaSell about his passion for writing, his life, work and book - Wanted
I was born in Southampton UK. When I was 15 my ambition was to become a famous writer. Over the next six years I wrote two novels (using an old-fashioned mechanical typewriter I’d purchased with my pocket money). I sent each novel to many publishers and was consistently rejected. One of the things you learn to live with as a writer is rejection. (It is reported that J.K.Rowling had Harry Potter rejected by twenty publishers before being accepted.) Over the next twenty years I didn’t write. I concentrated on bringing up a family and developing my career in management. This resulted in me being appointed to the board of an airline at 39. This was the early 1980’s and much of work was dealing with militant trade unions. In 1984, following a disagreement with the board I was fired. This coincided with my first marriage breaking up. So there I was, ‘out on the street’ with no job, no wife, no house and very little money. And this was in the middle of a recession!
I decided to set up a training and consultancy business and write a book. I sent the book to four publishers and within seven days two came back saying they wanted to publish it. I chose one and the advance I received helped me out of my financial crisis. The book, entitled Superboss, also provided a useful platform for promoting my consultancy business and securing assignments. Superboss was so successful it was reprinted innumerable times and published in twenty languages. Gradually my teaching activities evolved from leadership and motivation to customer service. When my publisher learnt this they commissioned me to write a book on customer service. This again was very successful and resulted in me receiving invitations from around the world (to give speeches and present training seminars). I worked in the USA, Africa, the Middle East as well as extensively in Asia.
Come 2005 my second marriage broke up. By this time a large proportion of my training work was in Asia (Singapore, Philippines and China mainly). In 2007 I fell in love with a young Filipina lady and decided to uproot myself – moving to the Philippines. I was 65 at the time. Having written 16 books on how to become a successful boss or how to deliver world-class customer service I was trying to think what to write about next. The inspiration came whilst sitting on an aeroplane on a flight from Singapore to Manila. I would write a book that focused on employees. That’s how WANTED was conceived. Despite the recession it was obvious to me that some individuals were much better at getting jobs or holding down jobs than others. Even in a recession there are vacancies. So WANTED is all about the qualities and attributes required to become the most wanted employee around. The book has been in the bookstores for four months now and my publishers inform me it is selling exceptionally well – with W.H.Smith featuring it as one of their top ten business best-sellers. The rights have also been sold for translation into Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese (in Brazil) and Korean.
The
Dream Doctor, Kelly Sullivan Walden talks to JoJaSell about her life, work and book - I Had The Strangest Dream
Over years of working with hundreds of clients, I began to see dreams as a way of doing laser surgery on the soul, in that dreams leave tell-tale clues as to the most direct route to an individual’s unique route to healing or to their one-of-a-kind way to thrive. When I realized that no dream books on the market dealt with contemporary symbols or synthesized the realm of dream interpretation in the life-affirming way I did, I felt compelled to write my latest book, I Had The Strangest Dream, The Dreamer's Dictionary For The 21st Century. ISBN 044669603X I began my dream research at the age of five! Growing up, my younger sister and I shared a room. Every morning, we would wake up excited to share our dreams and compare notes about what we thought our night-time adventures might have meant. We bought up every dream dictionary we could find and poured through them to widen the spectrum of our understanding. When I grew a little older I became interested in Carl Jung, Carlos Castaneda, in addition to many other spiritual and esoteric teachers, who took my understanding of dreams to a deeper level. Fifteen years ago, when I became a certified clinical hypnotherapist, I began working with clients via their subconscious minds to access their core beliefs, drives, and desires, in order to more effectively assist them to heal from past traumas and to align with their future goals.
It has been such an honor to have been asked to appear on numerous television, news, and radio programs over the past few years to talk about my passion and empower so many people on a mass level. I never could have dreamed that there would be such a mainstream interest in dreams. But, of course there would be - it is one thing we all have in common…and in understanding our dreams (or at least being in touch with them) can exponentially enhance our lives, our intuition, and our ability to expedite the process of making our desires come true. Two years ago I became President of the Women’s National Book Association (LA Chapter), and as a result was invited to participate in a conference at the United Nations (a dream come true). It was there that I received the insight (imagine the feeling of being struck by lightening) to begin The Dream Project www.DreamProjectUN.org, an educational program that inspires students (grades 6–12) to discover (dream) and invent solutions to the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (goals to combat, by 2015: poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. The Dream Project has been nominated for a CTAUN Best Practices Award (Committee on Teaching About the United Nations) and has become the most fulfilling work I’ve ever done.I could have never been receptive to such a great and ambitious calling had I not been in the practice of bridging the gap between my night-time dreams and day-time desire/purpose. By the way, as a result of the Dream Project, last year, not only was I invited to attend a conference at the United Nations, but I was invited to speak and share about the Dream Project, the absolute, highlight of my career. You never know what might happen to you once you begin paying attention to your dreams…you might discover gold in your own backyard, find the cure for cancer, speak before the United Nations, or find out the reason you were born and the way to fulfill your highest destiny!
Ellen Rogin talks
to JoJaSell about her book:
Two financial pros show you how to create true prosperity with a step-by-step method to boost
your bottom line, increase your confidence, and expand financial contentment. You will learn: The secret to limitless prosperity,
how to think your way to abundance, how to create and nurture your own vision of prosperity, how to jump into and carry through
your financial action plan, proven techniques to change thoughts of scarcity to abundance, how to change your money-mindset
to transform your life and how to keep abundance flowing even in turbulent times. What people
are saying about Great with Money: The Women's Guide to Prosperity “Great with Money is packed with practical wisdom that will change your mindset about money.”
Mellody Hobson, President, Ariel Investments and financial contributor, Good Morning America
About the Author: During these challenging times, Ellen Rogin offers a new and optimistic viewpoint on achieving excellence,
one far greater and more meaningful for your life than merely managing money successfully. This desire to connect people to information led Ellen to co-author the book, “Great with Money, The Women’s
Guide to Prosperity.” Ellen has established a reputation as a nationally-
known expert in the field of life and wealth planning. A seasoned financial advisor as well as
a lively author and presenter, she is driven by a mission to educate her readers and audiences on wise financial practices
and the options available to them in achieving their financial goals. In her more than 20 years in the financial profession as President of Strategic Financial Designs (a life and wealth management firm), Ellen has freed people to be the designer of their lives, to manage their money mindset and to be confident in their ability to lead a prosperous life. Ellen is often quoted as a financial expert in such publications as: Money Magazine, Business Week, Chicago Sun-Times and The Chicago Tribune and is a featured speaker before corporate and association audiences across the U.S.. To learn more go to www.ellenrogin.com Great With Money Written By: Mellisa Burke and Ellen Rogin Book ISBN 0981518109 Available at Amazon.com and JoJaSell.
Terri Lee Ryan talks
to JoJaSell about her book:
"'Life is not a dress rehearsal. We need to live every day as if it is our last. That being said, my life often feels as if it is one big to-do list. I struggle to remain in the moment, so I can enjoy the events and people in my life, yet all of the mandatory to-do "stuff" always seems to fill my days. There's the car battery that goes dead on the way home from work, my mother who calls to just chat while I am on a deadline for an article and my husband who can't find the kitchen in our house, so I am forced to get him his nightly cocktail. I am solidly entrenched in middle-age dealing with the lines around my eyes that just seemed to appear out of nowhere. Then there's the hot flashes that brings on beads of moisture during an important presentation. And my "inflatable" belly that I exercise to keep from getting larger than my breasts! I've come to realize that my to-do list is interchangeable with the term life. Life really is one big to-do list. Having come to terms with this, I am learning how to better manage my to-do list. I only commit to one charity a year, I give myself plenty of time to finish a project and I am practicing saying No to my husband, parents and children. I am learning how to take time for myself to make sure I am living the best life I am able. As one of my favorite deceased humorist once said, 'I rarely find life funny.' I found it humorous that she said this in one of her books because she always kept me laughing. I hope to touch your lives with my books as she has touched mine. Be grateful for your health, live your life with humor and give a hug to someone who needs it." Life Is One Big To-Do List: A Woman’s Life after 40 Written By: Terri Lee Ryan (www.terrileeryan.com) Book release date -March 2009 ISBN 978-1-60693-567-5
About the Author: Today’s Chicago Woman magazine’s featured author and article contributor, Terri Lee Ryan, is an expert in lifestyle issues, today. She combines her unique background in journalism, executive search/career coaching and sales with her own personal experience to create books that entertain and inspire. Ryan began writing professionally as a radio reporter. As a popular radio guest she has appeared on WLS-AM 890 on the "Women of Mass Discussion", KSPI and The Joey English Show in Palm Springs,CA and numerous Blogtalk radio shows including, The Deanna Lorraine Dating Coach Show, Wetalksex and The Finesse Cuisine Hour. www.terrileeryan.com. Available at JoJaSell. Book Summaries and Reviews
Michael O'Leary A Life In Full Flight By Alan Ruddock ISBN 978-1-844-88056-0 O'Leary - 'I was always driven, and I was always competitive. The harder you work, the luckier you get. You make your own breaks' Michael O'Leary is a business giant. He transformed Ryanair from a loss-making joke of an Irish carrier into one of the most valuable airlines in the world and has never been far from the headlines. But for all the publicity, little is known about Michael O'Leary beyond the carefully constructed image of the plucky little Paddy in jeans who is sticking it to the big boys. In this, the first biography of O'Leary, Alan Ruddock portrays the man in three dimensions, from his unsettled middle class childhood to his meteoric rise to the top of Ryanair when still in his early thirties. And he examines the business miracle - often talked about but poorly understood - whereby Ryanair's passenger numbers and profits have continued to grow while the rest of the airline industry has been forced to retrench. 'There's no point in a long-term plan, because a long-term plan gets knocked on its ass'
About a Boy By Nick Hornby
Coming Up Next By Penny Smith ISBN 978-0-00-726889-4 Bright lights, cat fights... Katie Fisher's going down like a bad pun. Sacked from her jobas anchor of popular breakfast show Hello Britain! and replaced by pert, youg back-stabber Keera, she's in hiding from those cashing in on her public fall from grace. Fleeing her luxury London flat, she seeks solace in the arms of her parents and in the drinks cabinet - along the way rediscovering Bob, herbrother's best friend and the most gorgeous man alive. But Katie's reckoned without the press and before long, less than flattering pictures and stories are going round town - just the kind you don't want a newly acquired boyfriend to see. Katie needs to get back on top, but can she drag herself free from the tangles of shobiz and regain control of her life?
The Meaning of Night Ny Michael Cox ISBN 978-0-7195-6837-4
The Mind Gym - Wake
your Mind Up ISBN 0-316-72992-2 In much of our lives, our minds operate on autopilot. Rather like the tourist who repeats the same words louder each time the local doesn't understand, we tend to continue thinking and behaving in similar ways, even it this isn't getting us what we want. However, once we can spot these mental habits, we can change them. As a result we are more likely to Achieve more in less time; Gain energy and have less negative stress; Resolve difficult challenges; Win people round to our point of view;Enjoy life. Over 100,00 people have taken part in and recommended The Mind Gym's workouts. Now, for the first time, hundreds of these practical tips and techniques based on applied psychology are packed into this book and, with your free personal membership number, at The Mind Gym Online.
Daring Deeds - Historical
and Other Stories By Alfred H. Miles Circa 1909
This particular book is a very special book from around 1909 given as a gift through the Wesleyan Sunday School. It has a hardcover binding, the publisher is John F. Shaw & Co., Ltd., of 3, Pilgrim Street, Ludgate Hill, and has aged well. Includes The Girl Who Held Up The River By Frank Savile, On The Lone Mountain Route By Will Allen Dromgoole; How I Flagged The Train By Jennie Creek; Down The Grand Canon By A. Ellbrace; and, Ocean Waifs By The Master.
Blackberry Wine By Joanne Harris Author
of Chocolat a Black Swan Publication
Jay Mackintosh is trapped by memory in the old familiar landscape of his childhood, more enticing than the present, and to which he longs to return. A bottle of home-brewed wine left to him by a long-vanished friend seems to provide both the key to an old mystery and a doorway into another world. As the unusual properties of the strange brew takes effect, Jay escapes to a derelict farmhouse in the French village of Lansquenet, where a ghost from the past waits to confront him, and the reclusive Maurise - haunted, lovely and dangerous - hides a terrible secret behind her closed shutters. Between them, a mysterious chemistry. Or could it be magic?
The
Davinci Code By Dan Brown ISBN 0-552-14951-9
'Intrigue and menace mingle in one of the finest mysteries ever read. An amazing tale with enigma piled on secrets stacked on riddles' 'You would never believe that this is your kind of thriller, but you're going to feel the more you read the more you will want to read' Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre, Jacques Sauniere, has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci - and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history....
The Way The Crow Flies By Ann-Marie MacDonald ISBN 0-00-717172-2 On a Canadian family air force base in the early 1960s, the McCarthy family is living the post-war dream. But Madeleine, the high-spirited eight-year-old daughter, becomes drawn into a perilous adult world and her father Jack gets caught in a web of Cold War secrets. When a local murder strikes at the heart of their new home, the McCarthys' lives are changed forever in ways that will become clear only when the quest for the truth, and the killer, is renewed twenty years later.
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Traitor To Memory By Elizabeth George ISBN 0-340-76708-1
Twenty-eight -year-old virtuoso violinist Gideon Davies has lost not only his memory of music but also his ability to play the instrument he has mastered as a five-year-old prodigy. One fateful night at Wigmore Hall, he lifted his violin to play in a Beethoven trio.... and everything in his mind related to music was gone. Gideon suffers from a form of amnesia, the cure for which is an examination of what he can remember. And what he can remember is little enough until his mind is triggered by the weeping of a woman and a single name: Sonia. One rainy evening, a woman called Eugenie travels to London for a mysterious appointment. But before she is able to reach her destination, a car swoops out of nowhere and kills her in the street. In pursuing the killer of Eugenie, Thomas Lynley, Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata come to kno a group of people whose lives are inexticably connected by a long-ago death, a trial, and a prison sentence handed down as retribution for a crime no one has spoken of for twenty years.
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari By Robin S Sharma ISBN 0-00-717973-1 The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is the story of Julian Mantle, a superstar lawyer whose out-of-balance lifestyle leads him to an almost fatal heart attack in a packed courtroom. His physical collapse brings on a spiritual crisis that forces him to confront the condition of his life and seek answers to life’s most important questions. Hoping to find happiness and fulfilment, he embarks upon an extraordinary odyssey to an ancient culture, where he discovers a powerful system to release the potential of his mind, body and soul, and learns to live with greater passion, purpose and peace. Blending the spiritual wisdom of the East with the success principles of the West, this inspiring tale shows you a pathway for living with greater courage, balance, abundance and joy.
Five Minds For The Future By Howard Gardner ISBN 978-1-59139-912-4 Howard Gardner author of Changing Minds. In Five Minds For The Future his enlightening meditation on the uses of the mind will stimulate people in all walks of life to cultivate important new mental habits. We live in a time of vast changes that include accelerating globalisation, mounting quantities of information, the growing hegemony of science and technology, and the clash of civilizations. Those changes call for new ways of learning and thinking in school, business, and the professions. In Five Minds For the Future, noted psychologist Howard Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the years ahead - the disciplinary mind, the synthesizing mind, the creating mind, the respectful mind, and the ethical mind. Armed with these well-honed capacities, a person will be equipped to deal with what is expected in the future - as well as what cannot be anticipated. Without these minds, individuals can't understand - overwhelmed by information, unable to succeed in the workplace, and incapable of making judicious decisions about personal and professional matters.
All Visitors Ashore By C K Stead ISBN 0-908877-51-x Middle-aged Auckland academic Professor Curl Skidmore looks back thirty years to the time of the great waterfront dispute of 1951, when he was a young poet living in a Takapuna beach flat with the beautiful Maori-French-Celtic Patagonia de Thierry. His bohemian mentor is the artist Melior Farboro, who provides a refuge for ex-nun and ex-psychiatric patient Cecelia Skyways. She desires Curl, but he has designs on Felice, the voluptuous wife of violinist and restauranteur Nathan Stockman. One by one, to the cry 'All visitors ashore', Curl's friends and acquantencies are taken from him in ocean liners to the other side of the world. The story of Curl's experience of that 'first year of the second half of the twentieth century', when his life is marked by confusion, conquests, departures and depletions, is recounted in the present tense so that, although the novel takes the form of a memoir, the effect is also of gazing into the future. Technically dazzling, witty, erotic, bizarre, wonderfully observant and exuberant, All Visitors Ashore is a virtuoso exploration of time and rememberance, of love andthe falling apart of relationships, of age and the joy of youth. |
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