As Galveston enters the twentieth century, the alleyway humans casting calm adjoin racism and injustice. Men and women, nuns and prostitutes attempt to change a boondocks threatened by the affluent and base on the eve of the Great Hurricane of 1900.
Plymouth, MI -- In the aboriginal twentieth century, the alleyway humans of Galveston, Texas commence on a adventure of self-discovery as they try to brainstorm a bigger association in a rapidly alteration world. Michael Kasenow has created a abundantly historic, active and alarming carpeting in "The Last Paradise" (ISBN 9781440120015, iUniverse, 2009).
When Maxwell Hayes enters Galveston, he sees two signs that acquaint him aggregate he needs to apperceive about the city. The aboriginal declares Galveston is paradise, the "Wall Street of the Southwest" and "Third Richest City in the Nation." The additional sign, strung about a atramentous man's close who hangs asphyxiate top from a tree, says, "This Nigger Voted." Galveston's goals for abundance affray with its ageism and hypocrisy. In the age of Jim Crow, poor whites and blacks, prostitutes and nuns will attempt to action racism and oppression, borough and accumulated corruption.
"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 adventure through self-discovery to acquisition their places in the alteration mural of a modernizing world. Joined by the nuns of St. Mary's and the casual poor who adhere out at Bleach's Tavern, these bent men and women draw aloft their close backbone and character, absolute from their adventures growing up on America's frontier, to angle up for their dreams and independence, even in the bosom of turmoil.
A adventure about what America should be and how to appearance it, "The Last Paradise" speaks to readers today. Kasenow's characters action to be the chargeless men and women their adventuresome alcohol appeal admitting political corruption, abuse by the rich, and accustomed disasters. Culminating in the affecting Great Hurricane of 1900 that collapsed Galveston, killing thousands, "The Last Paradise" is a account of fortitude, resilience, and how to accumulate the American dream alive.
Michael Kasenow has accounting a boastful admission novel. "The Last Paradise" is affluent with beauteous depictions of turn-of-the aeon Galveston and the confusion wrought by the Great Hurricane of 1900. Part actual fiction, allotment abstruseness thriller, the atypical inspires readers to acquisition their own close backbone in the bosom of tribulation. Humorous, evocative and sobering, "The Last Paradise" retains a faculty of adventitious and assurance in the animal soul's adeptness to prevail.
About the Author
In the eighth grade, Michael Kasenow was ashamed to be illiterate, and would adumbrate from accompany in the average academy library in an attack to apprehend abbreviate pieces of 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 escape a apple of drugs and the bottomward circling of his friends' lives. He catholic above America, from Michigan to Texas to New Mexico accomplishing odd jobs--cab driver, bartender, lumberman, janitor, butcher, and rancher. Interested in science, he accomplished himself mathematics, and he becoming a B.S. in Geology from Eastern Michigan University in 1986, followed by a 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.
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