Pax-salon Mailing List: Fwd: willow in a storm

[patty (pattypax]

HI again,  i should have put this in to tell you what is going on on 
Dec. 18 at the salon.  See the following Publisher's Weekly review of 
the book, Willow in a Storm.  The 2 authors will be with us on that 
Tuesday.  patty

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> From: patty <pattypax [at] earthlink.net>
> Date: Sat Dec 8, 2007  7:13:19  PM US/Central
> To: Patty Guerrero <pattypax [at] earthlink.net>
> Subject: Fwd: willow in a storm
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> > Willow In A Storm: A Memoir
> > James Peter Taylor and Kathleen Murphy-Taylor. Scarletta Press (PGW, 
> > dist.), $14.95 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0976520153
> >
> > Early on, Taylor somberly informs his readers that “[m]ost men do not 
> > survive four decades of incarceration,” a foreboding revelation that 
> > sets the stage for this riveting life story. An unflinching 
> > examination of his crime—a bank robbery and homicide committed at age 
> > 30—and his resulting conviction, incarceration, spiritual growth and 
> > eventual emancipation 40 years later, this tale proves emotional, 
> > forthright and inspirational. Writing with the help of his wife, the 
> > halfway-house counselor he met after his release from prison at age 
> > 70, Taylor looks back without self-pity or regret, making the casual 
> > cruelty he endures and his straightforward survival strategies all 
> > the more chilling. Smart, determined and hopeful, Taylor makes use of 
> > his prison days learning the law and helping out his fellow inmates, 
> > “so [they] would not turn on me while I slept.” Also resonant are 
> > murky scenes of a painful adolescence spent with an emotionally 
> > abusive father, his only adult accomplices—beloved Uncle Louis and 
> > Grandma Taylor—having succumbed to early deaths. That Taylor 
> > eventually finds peace, going so far as to “thank God for confinement 
> > because it gave me time to change,” speaks to the enormous heart of 
> > this honest, affecting account. (Sept.)