Thorn Book by Chris Drnaso UAE-Bookswagon
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A man will fight to his last for Hope when Hope is all he has Our story begins in the early 1900s in the rural south where a sharecropping family makes the decision to move north. Young Reilly Thorn along with his parents and ancient grandfather make their way to an impoverished black slum on the south side of the Chicago. Once there, they encounter the predictable resentment and prejudice of the white community, but in addition, they experience for the first time black on black hostility they were not prepared for. The family weathers the storms of hatred and inequity and through hard work and perseverance manage to survive in this strange new environment. A violent encounter with a black street gang provides the motivation for Reilly to become a Chicago police officer. He achieves this goal with the help of a benevolent mentor. Reilly, at a young age, will discover a love of and a talent for boxing. He's skilled but will walk away from the sport to pursue his law enforcement career. He meets Sissy, his one true love, and together the two marry and begin a family. Fate and circumstances conspire to force Reilly back to ring. Will he climb through the ropes? If he does, will he survive? Prohibition, the Great Depression, corruption, and lawlessness provide a powerful background to a story of a family trying to find their way in an unforgiving world.
About the Author: Chris Drnaso, a lifelong Chicagoan, was born in the early 1950s and raised in a highly industrial area on the southwest side of the city. Chris married his college sweetheart and best friend Marilyn in 1982. They make their home in Palos Hills, a southwest suburb of Chicago, not far from the Clearing neighborhood where he grew up. Chris and Marilyn have two sons; Matthew and Nicholas. In 2017, Drnaso celebrated ten years as a cancer survivor. He retired at the end of 2016, after thirty-four plus years in the telecommunication industry. Chris continues to serve on the board of directors for the Society of Cable Telecommunication Engineers. Drnaso has been a stained glass artist for over thirty years. His passions include reading, writing and taking long walks in the woods with his eighty-pound sort of a Black Lab, Abbey Road.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781542722902
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 154272290X
  • Publisher Date: 15 May 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 449 gr

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