TRADE SECRETS - Brielmaier, Robert L.

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Résumé :
Every parent knows a child can sometimes be incorrigible...

Biographie:
Born on the west shore of Lake Michigan two years before the start of the Baby Boom Generation (in August, 1944), ROBERT L. BRIELMAIER lived in a suburb of Milwaukee for 22 years. In 1966 he moved to the other side of Lake Michigan, where he taught high school history, psychology, and English for 31 years, interrupted by two years of military service (1968-1970), a oneyear sabbatical at Michigan State University (1978-79), and a one-year leave of absence for classes at Roosevelt University in Chicago (1985-86). In 1997, he left Michigan to become an adjunct instructor of Psychology and History at Hopkinsville Community College (part of the University of Kentucky), while often teaching additional classes at near-by Fort Campbell for Austin Peay State University of Clarksville, Tennessee. Mr. Brielmaier moved to Plano, Texas in 2004, where he presently resides, and served as adjunct instructor of Psychology at Richland College from 2004-2007.

Sommaire:
a piece of writing occasionally acts the same way. What the author originally conceived as a simple short story involving a flood and its consequences for those called in to help defiantly grew into a full length novel. Drafted prison inmates had wishes and secrets they did not disclose (and perhaps could not put into words), as did the townspeople they came to help. But, the towering pile of sand bags holding back a flood reflected other ramparts meticulously constructed to wall out unwanted people or undesirable realities. Ultimately, this novel poses a question. Was this apparently coincidental confluence of people (with their secret wishes) and events due merely to chance or was the gathering contrived by a master planner who employs his own trade secrets to perform miracles even for those not knowing how to ask?...