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 Author Reading at Uphams Corner Library
Local author: James Redfearn
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
Uphams Corner Library
500 Columbia Rd
617.265.0139
www.bpl.org
THE RISING AT ROXBURY CROSSING is
compelling fiction centering on men and women at the nexus of three
seminal events in early 20th Century history: the Irish
Rebellion,America's Red Scare, and the Boston Police Strike. According
to its author, (first time-novelist-at-age-69) James Redfearn, the
novel also serves as a metaphor for themes that resonate in
American society today: xenophobia, acceptance or rejection of
immigrants and, as our national Pledge of Allegiance states it,
"justice for all."
America Seeking its Lost Identity
In his novel, America is seeking its lost identity in postwar 1919, as
radical revolutionaries, high unemployment, and labor unrest challenge
the nation's democratic institutions. In heavily Irish Boston, a
different challenge is played out by the city's predominantly Irish and
underpaid police force and by echoes of Ireland's guerilla war of
independence.
Boston "copper" and Irish immigrant Willie Dwyer is central to the
story. He is haunted by a decade-old nightmare, a legacy of his
own involvement in his native land's rebel uprising, . When the police
strike for fair pay and tolerable working conditions and the city
erupts in chaos and confusion, Willie's nemesis crosses an ocean to
hunt him down and disclose his secret.
Not to be outdone by the storyline of his first novel, Mr. Redfearn has
lived a life worth writing about. He was raised in Boston's
Mission Hill neighborhood. Redfearn, in addition to being a former
Massachusetts State Police trooper (instructor, patrol officer, and
investigator), has also worked as an industrial photographer, and as a
longtime investigator for a prominent Boston law firm.
He earned a graduate degree in writing from Harvard University at the
age of 59 and has had short fiction published by Harvard's Charles
River Review and the New England Writer's Workshop. THE RISING AT
ROXBURY CROSSING took nine years to complete. It marks James Redfearn's
stunning literary debut.
Contact Information
(Olde Stoney Brook Publishing, Publication Date: May 21, 2012, ISBN No. 978-0-9839960-5-7, $18.95)
Note: This review based on a press release from Sandra Goroff
Sandra Goroff & Associates
42 Waterfall Drive, Suite L,
Canton, MA 02021
617.750.0555
sgma@aol.com
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Posted: June 10, 2012
Nancy J Conrad
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