GEORGE ROBERT MINKOFF
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IN THE LAND OF WHISPERS — A TRILOGY OF THE JAMESTOWN COLONY
"An excellent, vivid evocation of the beginnings of the Jamestown Colony. There was a continent to be grabbed -- the great American middle, between the French in Canada and Spain in the Caribbean — but the grabbing was not easy. And, in a broader sense, it's a story of Europeans encountering full-face the might of the American wilderness and the peoples who inhabited it." — Larry McMurtry
"An excellent, vivid evocation of the beginnings of the Jamestown Colony. There was a continent to be grabbed -- the great American middle, between the French in Canada and Spain in the Caribbean — but the grabbing was not easy. And, in a broader sense, it's a story of Europeans encountering full-face the might of the American wilderness and the peoples who inhabited it." — Larry McMurtry
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George Robert Minkoff was raised on Long Island. He graduated from Clark University in 1965. For five decades he has been a noted antiquarian and rare book dealer living in the Berkshires of Massachusetts and New York City. Mr. Minkoff began writing plays in the late 1960s, but a decade later the publisher of Putnam, William Targ, urged him instead to write novels. Inspired by one of his teen-aged sons, the trilogy "In the Land of Whispers" began as a one-act play to dramatize the absurdity between the reach of the first English settlers and their grasp, but as Minkoff dealt with the historical materials he realized there was a far greater story to be told -- a story of intertwined illusions: alchemy (the reigning science), tobacco (presumed a miracle drug), and the Elizabethan mind. To come Review of the audiobook of The Weight of Smoke in Book Trib https://booktrib.com/2019/09/heavy-is-the-weight-of-smoke-a-historical-drama-now-on-audiobook/ Review in Dactyl Reviews https://dactylreview.com/2020/01/18/the-weight-of-smoke-by-george-robert-minkoff/ |
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