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Schneid's

by Timothy F. Dempsey
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781512330090
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 446
  • Original Price: USD 17.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 563 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Historical / General

In the mid-sixties, drugs rode the subways from the inner city to the eastern suburbs of Queens, New York, where middle class families would be changed forever. Young men who came of age during that period lived in fear of the draft, as Vietnam took over the national psyche. To cope, some enlisted, some went to great lengths to dodge the draft, even to the extent of harming themselves, and some ran away to Canada. Some didn't get out of the decade alive. Schneid's is a novel that chronicles DAVEY O'CONNOR, a good catholic boy who gets sucked into the vortex of the times and strays from the righteous path his parents had laid out for him. He succumbs to temptations, observes and tries to experience the sexual revolution and even goes to Woodstock. He makes mistakes big and small and learns to survive. "Schneid's" was a real candy store, in Bellerose, Queens, that evolved from a family-friendly respite into a hangout for hundreds of kids, from naïve potheads to angry gangsters. It's become a cliché that if you remember the Sixties, you didn't really experience them. Not true for all of us. Personally, I knew three suspected murderers and had more than that number of friends who died of overdoses. But Schneid's is no memoir. It fits within literary and historical fiction. It captures a time and a place, --Sixties' Queens-- as well as tells the story of several friends who struggle to make sense of it all, with very different outcomes for each. You've heard about the Sixties--if you want to know what they were really like, Schneid's will give you a view!

Born and raised in New York City, Dempsey earned a Bachelor of Arts in American History from Queens College (CUNY) and a Masters in Library and Information Sciences from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He had careers in Finance, as a Business Librarian, a Human Resources executive and an Organization Development consultant. Since becoming a writer, he has had a short story published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, as well as publishing "No Fear: Tales of a Change Agent, or, Why I Couldn't Fix Nortel Networks," which was favorably reviewed by the Toronto Globe and Mail. He is most proud of his family: Wife, best friend and partner, Janis, who has been by his side for 45 years; two children, Patrick and Colleen; son-in-law Jeffery Payne; virtual daughter-in-law Regina Ballone; grandson, Silas Timothy Dempsey Payne; and granddaughter Winter Maris Dempsey Payne. He is a humanist whose purpose is to help himself and others learn. With James Taylor, he believes that the secret to life is enjoying the passage of time! To that end, he and his family have settled into the Low Country of Charleston, South Carolina

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