Shakedown Lifestyle

About the Book

Shakedown Lifestyle is the love story of Bill and Edna, two people from divergent backgrounds who meet and learn to communicate with ever more sensitive empathy. Openly curious and intelligent about socio-cultural and spiritual affairs, they are often distracted in a one world United Federation of North American States (UFNAS, popularly pronounced "Yoofnas") near mid-21st century. Eventually their dallying foreplay is brought to intimacy by an unlikely matchmaker...Edna's priestly uncle who was there for her as a born-again ministerial priestess.

About the Author

The life-wide and far-ranging endeavors of Patrick R. Penland have long been advantaged by diversely checkered experiences while young adult, vocational practitioner and world traveller. In turn, this wealth of background has enriched his novels and other creative output -- representing existential episodes of interpersonal drama within the fate of human destiny. As a communications specialist, the author's professional life was dedicated to the facilitation of relevant information retrieval. Despite early retirement and a career change to narrative writing he has always been involved with enterprises designed to ensure every citizen's democratic right to access universal knowledge for liberty and personal self-betterment.