John P. Schroeder
Description
Product Description
An exciting, coming-of-age novel - the story of Fairchild in Michigan's hauntingly beautiful Upper Peninsula. The year is 1915, w
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ar across and ocean threatens America and 17-year-old Frank Burns, about to graduate high school plans to stay on the family farm, the only world he knows.
But a string of unlikely events sends him on a new and unchartered path - one of self-discovery but with a very uncertain future.
Review
In the tradition of Steinbeck and McMurtry, John Schroeder builds a world around the reader ... an exciting and extravagant yarn. --
The Daily Press, Ashland WI
About the Author
John P. Schroeder was born Jan. 4, 1935 in Ashland, Wis. He sailed the Great Lakes for a number of years but due to failing health worked as a retail grocery clerk.
He was an easy-going man with an appreciation for nature and the ability to make the best of any situation.
Schroeder was a write in the purest sense of the word, never letting his increasingly debilitating illness keep him from his work. Writing remained a deep passion for him right up until his death on May 11, 1993.
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