Penina's Letters - Softcover

Linker, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1530686881 ISBN 13: 9781530686889

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

"Penina's Letters" takes place in the beach cities along Santa Monica Bay, with a fictionalized beach town named Refugio squeezed in between El Porto and Grand Avenue. The town of Refugio replaces the iconic towers and power plant between the water and the dunes of El Segundo. Draft segments of "Penina’s Letters" appeared in The Boulevard (Summer 2012), a publication of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters. Parts of the “How to Surf” chapter appeared in different form on Berfrois on September 29, 2015. File Under: Ocean Surfing Love Letters War Epistolary Bildungsroman Santa Monica Bay Beach Cities School Work Family Friendship Self-deception Literary Fiction Folk Song Narrative."All the fuss and hullabaloo, and a war just peters off. But none of that matters here. This isn’t going to be about the war. I don’t have any gory stories, nothing painting war as hell. Hell is an ocean with no waves. This is going to be about surfing and how I paddled out to live on the water after throwing Penina’s letters off the end of the Refugio jetty. "Penina's Letters, a Novel by Joe Linker

About this title

About the Author:

Joe Linker attended El Camino College and California State University at Dominguez Hills, completing a BA in English, with a minor in 20th Century Thought and Expression, and an MA in English, while putting in six years in the Army California National Guard. Two decades of adjunct work bookend 25 years in what Han-shan called the “red dust” of business (CPCU, 1992). He was a Hawthorne Fellow at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters, Summer 2012.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1530686881
• ISBN 13: 9781530686889
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290