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Now and at the Hour

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Language
English
Publishers
Three Towers Press (27 April 2024)
Weight
0.25 KG
Publication Date
15/03/2024
ISBN-10
1595989900
Pages
181 pages
ISBN-13
9781595989901
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15.24 x 1.04 x 22.86 cm
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9781595989901
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Martin Drapkin (Author)
Martin Drapkin was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He moved to Madison to attend graduate school at University of Wisconsin-Madison (in English Education) and never left. He intended to be a high school English teacher, but never did that. Instead, he spent his professional life as a state government employee working in criminal justice training. He worked for many years for the Wisconsin Department of Justice as the coordinator of the state’s program for training county jail officers. In that capacity, he authored several professional books and articles on jail issues, including a well-received book on management of inmates with mental disorders. He retired in 2012.Martin developed an interest in writing fiction a few years before his retirement. He has not specifically studied creative writing, but has family ties in that regard inasmuch as a second cousin, Nat Hiken, was a famous TV writer in the 1950s and 1960s (Sergeant Bilko; Car 54, Where Are You?). Martin’s first novel, Now and at the Hour, was based upon his experiences working in a state institution for developmentally disabled people, in which one of his charges was a boy who was tragically brain-damaged in a sports accident. His second work of fiction, Ten Nobodies (and their somebodies), reflects his interest in history (perhaps “fractured” history), with imagined “nobodies” who worked for or otherwise served famous people in history, such as William Shakespeare. Davy Crockett, Lewis Carroll, President Taft, Marilyn Monroe, and Meyer Lansky.In his third work of fiction, The Cat Tender, Martin combined his interests in weddings, cats, and lonely, ambivalent people. Martin is also a long-time photographer. He was a wedding photographer for many years, and loved that—particularly the receptions. He also likes photographing people at street fairs and festivals. He has had a number of exhibits of his photos, and plans to publish several photography books.Read more about this authorRead less about this author
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Billy Malsavage is a young aide working at a state institution for people with intellectual disabilities in the early 1970s. One day a new resident, twelve-year-old Ricky, is wheeled into B Ward, victim of a serious brain injury suffered in a football game.

Ricky can’t walk or talk because of his accident, but his intelligence is unaffected. Buddy, one of the long-time ward residents, is a fifty-four-year-old man with cerebral palsy.

He, too, is trapped in a body that doesn’t work well, but his mind is also fine. Both Billy and Buddy feel bad for poor Ricky, and do what they can to cheer him up.

Billy reads to Ricky and Buddy and shows funny movies. The three grow closer.

As Ricky weakens and his physical condition worsens, he turns to his Catholic faith for solace. But can his faith help him in his desperation? Can anything?.

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