Gerald F. Sweeney will be signing his new novel titled A Tournament of a Distinguished White Order at the News Center in Easton on Saturday, December 10, 2016 from 1:00 to 3:00.
Tournament follows the complicated love duel between a creative Army private and a sensuous young actress, a pair energized and troubled during the “forgotten” Korean War. Jim Mahoney learns how to soldier while Fawn Evans battles for a career on the New York stage. How they do or don’t maintain a love affair during wartime reveals their character.
For twenty years, Sweeney has been writing a series of seven novels about one family journeying through the Twentieth Century, a time of multiple Wars, the Depression and multiple social advances—the civil rights movement, women’s rights and gay rights. These stand-alone novels are overseen by a character called the Wizard who operates a clandestine radio station that favors American classical music and a unique view of America’s role in the world. Called The Columbiad, the series depicts the adventures of an Irish immigrant family toiling through the early century in the Midwest and then follows one branch to New York.
The published volumes include:
Eagles Rising (1) – An historical novel.
First Lights (2) – A schoolboy’s coming of age novel.
Crashing Into Sunrise (3) – A novel about a youth’s cultural and intellectual development.
Tournament of a Distinguished White Order (4) – An Army novel with a love story.
Yo Columbia! (6) – A quest novel. A bi-racial couple seeks Scott Joplin’s lost opera.
Wizard Ho! (7) Another quest novel. The couple seeks the Wizard in his radio lair
Sweeney is working on the final book in the series, a Sixties-eranovel (5).
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