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Thye Climbing Boy
Paperback, 734 pages
Published by Metropolis Ink (2010)
ISBN-10: 0980721911      ISBN-13: 978-0980721911
 

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SYNOPSIS AND REVIEWS


SPRING, 1956, BRIGHTON BEACH, NEW YORK: an old man crossing a street eerily foretells the future of the young man sitting in the car waiting for the red to turn to green...

Remember...

...the day a middle aged woman sat down in a bus, and a Southern Baptist minister gained national prominence?

...the day a mysterious, intermittent beep, beep, beep... ushered in the dawn of the space age?

...the day that ushered in America’s dawn of integration – when two U.S. armies stood face to face with bayoneted rifle’s outside an American high school?

...the day America tottered on the brink of nuclear war?

...the day a line was drawn in the ocean, and the other guy blinked?

...the winter’s day when America forever lost its innocence.

FOR BETTER OR WORSE

Seven years that changed the history of the world and the complexion of America. Taking place in New York City, Chicago and Central Illinois, the characterizations and situations coinciding with historical events.

Paths crossed when he was five years old while crossing a street with his mother on the west side of Chicago, the same old man seen again crossing a street in Brighton Beach, New York... seventeen years later.

Through seven years as two familiar young people become an adult man and woman, a husband and a wife and, eventually, responsible parents.

Realistically written, humanistically, visually sexual, be there as this love-to-hatred, hatred-to-love marriage entwines throughout the history of the mid-1950’s into the ‘60’s


REVIEWS OF FOR BETTER OR WORSE

"This book is a fascinating story of a young man who has a true "love/hate" relationship with his young wife. Both struggle with problem over money, children and their respective parents. The author has pulled from personal experience [always a solid foundation] and woven in fictional relationships and memorable moments. At times I forgot this was a novel. The author has a remarkable handle on the descriptive phrase. The story is sound and I enjoyed revisiting the 50's and 60's through Mitchell's eyes and think you will too." -- Donna, Thousand Oaks, California

"Mark Lichterman combines a unique, earthy and street-smart style with colorful, familiar and sympathetic characters, in a humorous, semi-tragic tale of navigating the sometimes treacherous shoals of family and business life in the middle America of the '50s and '60s. "For Better or Worse" was a very satisfying read." -- J. Magoun (Thousand Oaks, CA)


"I found myself drawn deeper and deeper into the life and heart of this wonderful character until he truly felt like someone I knew and loved..."