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IRONBOUND PRESS
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SATURDAY LUNCH and other STORIES
- Author: Richard R. Karlen
- Date of
Publication: September, 2003
- Price: $15.00 plus cost of
shipping and handling
- Number of pages: 243 text
- ISBN: 0-96608313-X
- Library of Congress
Control Number: 2003109592
- Printer: King
Printing
- Cover Painting of Japanese Boy by Ai Iwano
- Photographed by Kim Karlen
- Cover design by HM Fotograph/x
- This book is intended for the adult market to include both college
students and the general reading public.
PUBLISHER’S
NOTE
Dr. Richard Karlen’s fifth work of
fiction, a collection of seventeen short stories, will take the reader on a
life-long journey traveling back to the author’s childhood in such stories
as Matchmakers, A Taste of Chocolate and in perhaps the most
controversial of these stories, Sonata Facile, in which the author,
at age thirteen, becomes the romantic object of a pedophile while at a
summer camp.
There are five stories predicated upon the
years Dr. Karlen served in the Air Force from 1957-1960 in Korea and Japan
and a sad, poignant story about a nine year old Japanese child caught up
during the nightmare of war derived from the remembrances of Dr. Karlen’s
wife, Hiroko Karlen, who lived in Tokyo during World War II (An Apple for
Kyoshi).
From Dr. Karlen’s forty years of professional
experience, the reader will discover three stories that will offer special
insights into the world of dentists and dental technicians.
Not to be overlooked is the disturbing story
of man dying of MS, a former patient of Dr. Karlen’s, who, in his
desperation to grab a few final moments of life, comes into conflict with
his wife, equally desperate for a way out of the trap she has fallen into (The
Arrangement).
And finally there is Dinga Goes to Trial,
Dr. Karlen’s serio-amusing dog story, which indicts a modern day suburban
mentality that places the importance of the greenness of its lawns ahead of
the pressing social problems of an unsettled, sometimes chaotic society.
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