Sheldon Friedman, a resident
of Colorado, recently retired as a practicing lawyer. He is
also a playwright, having his play The Long Goodbye
performed at a local theater in 2010. A recent play is in the
hands of a producer and another play is to be produced in
2016.
A former college lecturer on legal topics, he has been
writing short stories, plays and novels since the age of ten.
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THE
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The Silk Swan
continues the exciting adventures and life-styles of Travis
Kane, his family and friends after World War II. This novel
focuses on the coming of age issues of their children, their
heartbreaks, tragedies, passions, joys and what it was like
to live during the latter part of The Cold War years.
New York, London and Paris have
never been more exciting and adventurous. Filled with
romance, suspense, racial tensions, family dynamics, sexual
tension and political intrigue, the Kane chronicles will
remain in your memory long after you read the final pages.
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Published 30 June 2018
8ISBN 9781 222 0435 82
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THE
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After the
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, American lives change
dramatically. The Satin
Sash continues the
breathtaking lives of Travis Kane, Lindsay Wayne and
Jean-Paul Renault with all the inherent dangers of the
French Resistance, President Roosevelt’s live or die
missions, and death defying action when German spies
secretly enter the US through it’s ports. A wedding
reception and the lives of Travis Kane and his family are
thrown into chaos as America enters World War II.
The
Satin Sash
is set against the explosive backgrounds of New York,
France, London and Ireland. Travis Kane becomes President
Roosevelt’s tool in bringing one of the world’s most famous
paintings to New York. Racial tensions surface. A famous
black activist enters politics and an actress makes choices
in the face of heartbreaking tragedy. A public enemy serves
his country in wartime and a black artist becomes famous.
When a baby is born the future shows promise.
With tension, suspense and surprising
plot twists, we continue to follow the lives of the people
we loved in The Velvet Prison.
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Published 31 MARCH 2017 ISBN 9781 544772592
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THE
VELVET PRISON Published
2016 CUSTOM BOOKS Classic Imprint |
The Velvet
Prison was selected as one of
three finalists for Best Mainstream Fiction in 2016 by the
Colorado Author’s League. Over 200 books were submitted in
the Mainstream Fiction genre. Finalists participated in a
book reading and signing at The Tattered Cover, one of the
largest independent booksellers in the Denver metropolitan
area.
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Against the pulsating back drop of a New York City in
social and economic change, young Travis Kane struggles with
his passion to be an artist painter, and the conservative
demands of his strict grandfather, Barclay Kane.
His mother, unable to come to terms with tragedy, has taken
Travis' infant sister and abandons him, leaving their house in
Gramercy Park, and Travis to be raised by the grandfather he
adores.
Travis enters a New York speakeasy, with a unique idea,
that will change his life, leading him on an exciting journey,
meeting Manhattan's privileged, studying in art in Paris and,
finding his way to Broadway.
Meanwhile, Lindsay Wayne's mother, seamstress, has a
secret, and a passion. Her daughter will become a famous stage
actress, and this is her focus.
Lindsay and Travis' worlds collide.
Their lives will never be the same again.
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Published 15 September 2016
ISBN 9781 537628622
RELEASED DECEMBER 2016
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