Bøker av Brian Douglas Beverly

The one way that Clarence Taylor thought to make matters easier for himself, and his people at home, is to get North to Ohio. And start a new life there. Because, still it is the hungry years, and there's no real means of support. One's can only hope the next train ride will lead him or her to a real job in some other town. Knowing just what's coming around the next bend, is a lot to do with it's success. And even though Clarence is in the dark, and the train has gone another way then what was expected. He still has the courage to continue on.

A professor at the university who is also a fisherman is having a bad midlife crisis at age fifty-one and is dating one of his students. She is age twenty-two, and her Hawaiian mother disagrees with the arrangement. And Rachel will not introduce her boyfriend, whom she's gotten to know at the university. But Professor Bartholomew Alliance Jackson has fallen in love with Rachel and wants her to marry him. Rachel knows what their relationship will come to, and the finish is most ironic.

Working at the Seaboard Air Lines Railroad, depot, in Tidewater Virginia. Stops for Clarence Taylor. And because it''s a time of the hungry years, he journeys like hobos do.