Lost and Found

by Charles McAdam


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Softcover
£11.75
Softcover
£11.75

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 06/04/2000

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 368
ISBN : 9781587210259

About the Book

Liz Culkin and Hugh Staynback experience love at first sight while students at Rutgers College in New Jersey, in 1948. Glorying in their first experience in romantic love, they are convinced that no power on earth could ever come between them. Of course, they are mistaken, as Hugh's commitment to his invalid mother coupled with his other family members' refusal to commit themselves to such an intrusion into their lives, leads to a truly heartbreaking separation of the lovers. This tale traces their lives, alternately, over a span of twenty years during which time they experience the good and the bad, with the latter, especially in Liz's case, being the dominant condition. As a high school principal she becomes entangled with a succession of men of power who resent her success in a male-dominated society and her fierce determination to stand by her principles regardless of the cost to herself. While she is surviving these twenty years, she often longs for the love and devotion she thought she had found in Hugh, who also experiences many difficult years, especially when he is exposed to the ravages of war in Korea. It is during those most difficult years when he frequently immerses himself in his memories of Liz and of the ecstatic love they once shared. Then, one day in 1972 Hugh decides that he must find Liz, and he launches his search in a most unorthodox manner, by reserving a banquet room in a facility in Hackensack, N.J., where he fully intends to be a groom at a wedding reception in the near future.


About the Author

Charles W. McAdam, a retired teacher of English with the Fort Lee, N.J. school district, is a life-long resident of New Jersey. A Korean War veteran, he lives with his wife, Renee, and is the father of five and grandfather of eight. Lost and Found is his first attempt at fiction, though his is currently working on his third novel. Having subscribed to the theory which holds that everyone has a novel within himself if he will just reach within and give it life, he went about the task of doing just that. Liz Culkin and Hugh Staynback were thus created. The McAdams have made Secaucus, NJ their home for over forty years.