Lively Scandals in Old Brooklyn Heights

About the Book

The story of one family in Brooklyn Heights.

Discover why a beautiful woman walks down through her garden one night to a ship awaiting her, and sails away forever. The new Brooklyn Bridge as naked male splendor rides over it. Four whores in a brownstone and the bawdy man who steals them all. the strongest power on earth? Not money or high office, undying love.

“A writer of unmistakable talent.”

—The New Yorker

“A writer who can tell a story with gusto and wit. Genuine literary merit.”

—Chicago Tribune

“Has those flashes of perception and illuminating phrase which reveal the writer of individual character.”

—J. Donald Adams, New York Times

About the Author

I have never found writing to be solitary work. My characters are lively company—full of earnest folly—intricate evil—good entwined with ego and above all, jaunty courage on the rim of disaster. I aim for the center, fall short, try again. In other words, I’m a writer.