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By Sam Smith
Published: February 21, 2008
Updated: October 27, 2008
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Now that John John has been made into a paperback - thanks very much bibliophilia for giving me the opportunity to showcase my work - I thought I'd start blogging '2 Bridgwater Days', and begin with the first half of the Prologue....
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Email Here are the first two chapters of Back There , a novel which recounts a mid-century love between a French girl and an art-crazy American, Harry Grossman, aka Seymour Stein, hapless posthumous hero of Good Americans Go to Paris when they Die decades later.Back There is available at Amazon (at least for the time being), and also at Barnes and Noble in the US and WH Smith in the UK.
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It is 1904. A letter is found hidden in an old book describing the burial in a ravine of a treasure taken from Moscow in 1812. The drama unfolds with the advance of Napoleon’s grand army into Russia, and relates its terrible retreat through the eyes of Michael Korsowski, a Polish cavalry officer. Meanwhile, the heroine of the tale, Ellen Charpentier, waits and hopes for his deliverance. After the discovery of the treasure, those who survive the retreat do so in the expectation of being able to share it. However, more suffering and death await them during the campaign of 1813 that brings Napoleon’s Empire to its knees. To safeguard the treasure, Michael and a few fellow survivors bury it. Michael then nearly dies of typhus, and on what he believes to be his death bed writes the letter that is to survive untouched until 1904, as it is never sent to its intended destination.
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Email An extract from "Good Americans Go to Paris when they Die" by Howard Waldman. The novel will be available from Amazon from March 26 on.
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Email My original intention was to upload this novel one chapter at a time - as a blog. But I discovered that blogspot puts up the most recent chapter at the top, so that one is reading the chapters in reverse order. Thankfully Toni has offered me this space. Where I will begin - as all storytellers should - with the first 3 chapters.
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