Bøker av Jim Lazarus

Stories from a Small Town has three sections. "The Day of the Storm" is a historical fiction account of a devastating cyclone (tornado) that occurred in June 1899. The Long and Winding Road is a novella of a young man returning home to New Richmond from the Vietnam War and adjusting to "stateside" life, reuniting with a love he once lost, and a mystery he helps solve. Memories From a Small Town captures the adventures and incidents the author experienced as a NR resident growing up in the Post World War II years. I hope that you find something (if not all) to enjoy, reflect upon and remember.

Farewell, Danny Boy and Other Short Stories is a collection of American short fiction. The settings of the stories range from 1911 to now. "Farewell, Danny Boy" concerns a notorious Minneapolis criminal who continuously dodges justice until it is meted out, in a way, at the famed Foshay Tower. "The Journal of Jesse Ayala" revisits the time in 1963 New Orleans when JFK's assassination may have been plotted. "The Enabling of Cain" is the story of New York City writer Leo Cain and his struggle to earn a living with his keyboard. I hope that you will find these stories interesting and that you may continue to reflect on them.

Those Visions of Johanna and 12 More Tales is a collection of 3 novelettes and 10 short stories that, hopefully, you will enjoy long after reading them. Title character Johanna Rozinski has created a one-night memory in Jack Lorenzo that lasts and lasts. Jack seeks the love of a girl which has been perfected in his mind over decades. In "University Avenue Bum", Minneapolis Detective Cliff Hanson investigates the death of a young man, a PTSD victim, who engaged in the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War. "Weird" Kalie Hartis, college junior, is the magical, mysterious girl who redeems and transforms the life of her freshman lover, Allen Zigman in the novelette, For the Love of Kalie. Eight more stories await to provide you with reading enjoyment and, possibly, enrichment.

America has over four million miles of roads: concrete, asphalt, gravel, dirt. Jake Rivers (fictional source) has collected many interesting short stories as he’s driven a truck along these trails. Some he’s witnessed like “The Good Nude,” featuring Dee Kurzinski, a beautiful young woman who’s bored being on the road. Some tales Jake has heard about as a recent event such as “In the Pines”, which takes place on an icy highway in northern Wisconsin. “Beacon in the Wheatfield” goes back to the bootlegging days of the 1930’s. Enjoy these stories and nine others which are set across a broad spectrum of time and distance. Get in the cab with Jake and read about what he has discovered.Jim Lazarus has been described as an interesting author who writes well and whose “vivid descriptions make the book come to life.” This book will entertain you and leave you wondering, “What else is on the road?”