Big Red Sun
Big Red Sun is the story of a family fractured by the Second World War. A son searches for his father through the bewildering landscape of post-war America, where the simple melodies of Kern and Berlin have been replaced by the dizzying energy of jazz and the budding of rock-and-roll. Winner of the 2005 Harold Arlen Award from ASCAP.More
Explicit Vows
A pregnant sow flees a farm, going into the forest to have her piglets. She meets a snake and the two creatures are at first cautious of each other but a friendship blossoms and the snake helps the pig to have her babies and to protect her from what the farmer has planned for her and the little ones. Published in 1982 with drawings by Susan Yard Harris.
Sour Springs
A pregnant sow flees a farm, going into the forest to have her piglets. She meets a snake and the two creatures are at first cautious of each other but a friendship blossoms and the snake helps the pig to have her babies and to protect her from what the farmer has planned for her and the little ones. Published in 1982 with drawings by Susan Yard Harris.
Icetown
This unusual account of a storm offers a strange amalgam of the sublime and the silly, the significant and the trivial. In his first book, journalist/dramatist Jiler gives a virtually blow-by-blow account of events that transpired on September 25-26, 1985, when Hurricane Gloria, the worst in half a century, hit the narrow, elongated tract of land off Long Island's southern coast known as Fire Island. The author provides a splendid capsule history of Fire Island, including its development into a summer home for New York City's affluent homosexuals. His profiles of the 10 people, straight and gay, who refused to flee from Gloria to the mainland are also interesting, and he vividly depicts the storm's terrifying, capricious power. - Publishers Weekly