Valley of Roses - Softcover

Stoltzfus, Ben

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ISBN 10: 1553956494 ISBN 13: 9781553956495

Publisher: Trafford Publishing, 2006

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Valley of Roses is a fictional memoir about an American boy growing up in Bulgaria; and the Valley of Roses is a place where attar of roses is distilled from rose petals, love is distilled from the heart, and art is distilled from events that alter the lives, loves, and friendships of Americans and Bulgarians, irrevocably, after the German forces occupy the Balkans during World War II.

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About the Author

�Ben Stoltzfus is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, and French at the University of California, Riverside. He is a novelist, translator, literary critic and inter-arts scholar. He has published many articles on twentieth-century French, English, and American writers, 12 monographs of literary criticism on Chennevi�re, Robbe-Grillet, Gide, Lacan, and others, as well as books on Hemingway, Magritte, D.H. Lawrence, and Jasper Johns. An award-winning writer, he has received a fair share: Fulbright, Camargo, Gradiva, Humanities, Creative Arts, and MLA. He has published six novels and two collections of short stories. Romoland, a pictonovel, written in collaboration with Judith Palmer, the artist, was published in 2017. The collection Falling and Other Stories was published in 2018. The novel, Dumpster for God's Sake, was published in 2019. Alliecats, text by Ben Stoltzfus, illustrations by Allie Kirschner, his granddaughter. Alliecats is a collection of 53 graphic tales and word-puns about cats beginning with the prefix cat: catalog, catsup, catwalk, etc., published in 2019.�� The Silver Award novel, Transgression: Hitler, Mirka, Mireille, and Me, was published in 2022. 2022 also saw the publication of D.H. Lawrence's Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective. Stoltzfus lives in Riverside, California, with his artist wife, Judith Palmer.