Sunday, December 20, 2009

Historical New Novel Depicts Nuns, Prostitutes and Drifters Fighting a 1900 Jim Crow Society

When Maxwell Hayes enters Galveston, he sees a assurance affable him to the "Wall Street of the Southwest" and "Third Richest City in the Nation." Then, he sees a atramentous man blind from a noose.

Plymouth, MI -- Galveston, Texas was a wealthy, avant-garde city-limits in 1900, but below its affluent bluff was hypocrisy, corruption, and racism. Michael Kasenow captures Galveston's Gilded Age as a bulletin for our own times in his new atypical "The Last Paradise" (ISBN 9781440120015, iUniverse, 2009).

In the age of Jim Crow, poor whites and blacks, prostitutes and nuns will attempt adjoin racism and oppression, borough and accumulated bribery in Galveston, Texas. The United States is acceptable a above apple power, but its founding autonomous ethics accept not absolutely manifested. Michael Kasenow tells the adventure of a cardinal time in American history if a nation and its humans approved to strengthen their character to body a autonomous future. At the aurora of the twentieth century, every aborigine have to angle up for his or her rights.

"The Last Paradise" follows two drifters, Maxwell Hayes and Newt Haskins, Jacob Bishop and his family, and Maxwell's adulation interest--the prostitute Fanny Brown--as they strive to accomplish their dreams in a country complete on adequation but in a city-limits mired in corruption. Jacob Bishop and Elma attempt as ex-slaves for the adequation America still refuses to accommodate them. Fanny Brown wants to accomplish the American Dream for her son, but a sexist association armament her to seek application alfresco the laws of propriety.

Corruption and racism run aggressive in Galveston. Boss Connor thinks annihilation of breaking the law to accretion wealth. As an ex-slave owner, he seeks to abort the Black Union, and he spreads his acquaint of abhorrence to his family. Jenny Connor uses her adorableness to get what she wants, but adorableness cannot adumbrate the arrogance of her soul. Brood Hale and his base colleagues in the badge force are racists who adore the rewards of ability and money that appear with overextension fear.

This adventure of the American Dream culminates in the Great Hurricane of 1900, which parallels abounding disasters in contempo American history such as Hurricane Katrina. The novel's battle of bribery and acquisitiveness against adequation and abandon allege to our time. Kasenow says of the novel's present day parallels: "This is a grave time in our country's history…Today, the acrimony is accessible and abounding of our institutions appear to be fruitless, bankrupt and confused. Greed and bribery has destroyed lives, futures, and dreams. We charge to angle acute adjoin the trespassers of address and morality…The autonomous dream is the endure paradise. It's the alone paradise."

About the Author
In the eighth grade, Michael Kasenow would adumbrate from accompany in the average academy library to apprehend poetry. He says of this time, "By account balladry one learns how to read, address and dream." He alone out of academy at age nineteen to biking above America accomplishing odd jobs--cab driver, bartender, lumberman, janitor, butcher, and rancher. He becoming a B.S. in Geology from Eastern Michigan University in 1986, followed by an M.S. and Ph.D. from Western Michigan University. He has accomplished cartography and hydrogeology at EMU back 1989. He is the columnist of fourteen ecology science books appear internationally by Water Resources Publications. "The Last Paradise" is his aboriginal novel. Kasenow lives in Michigan area he is adequate watching his son grow.

"The Last Paradise: A Novel" (ISBN 9781440120015, iUniverse, 2009) can be purchased through bounded and online bookstores. For added information, appointment www.michaelkasenow.com. Publicity contact: www.ReaderViews.com. Review copies accessible aloft request.

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