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January 30, 2008 Wednesday 12:00 PM EST
Two Fun Novellas in Just One Book! — Author Edward Proffitt Skillfully Employs
Wit in a Satirical Tale On Bureaucracy and the Absurdity of the Vietnam War
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Jan. 30, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — How does bureaucracy
work? Can homosexuality be cured? Unravel the answers from author Edward
Proffitt’s new book, The Groves: How Bureaucracy Works & but first, a little
chee chee, another fantastic read that will appeal to readers with its witty
humor and biting satire.
The Groves consists of two novellas found in one book. The first, How
Bureaucracy Works, is a satirical tale on bureaucracy via academia while but
first, a little chee chee pokes at the absurdity of the Vietnam War and of gays
who enlist. As a writer of consummate skill, Proffitt skillfully employs humor
in a satire that imparts wisdom and at the same time says something that touches
us all. Going beyond the story’s surface, readers will uncover deeper levels of
enjoyment that will make them laugh, smile, grumble, grimace, and think.
Compact, concise yet wonderfully written, The Groves is an unexpectedly
surprising treat that a wide audience will enjoy. To get a copy of this fun
book, just visit a local book retailer near you or log on to Xlibris.com today.
About the Author
A full professor at Manhattan College, now retired and living in Palm
Springs, Dr. Edward Proffitt began his writing career as a poet in late
adolescence, at the time of his first coming out. Born in 1938, he experienced
the horror of being gay in the 50′s and early 60′s. The demeaning situation
“inverts” had to endure led him to enter psychotherapy and later to marry. He
remained married for nearly thirty years, during which time he fathered two
children and published extensively. However, because Erato had fled, he wrote no
more poetry until after his second coming out at the end of the nineties, when
the poems of both Home Erectus (his first book of poems) and now Ecce Homo
poured out. Most of these poems concern the experience of being gay in the world
as we have known it seen through a critical eye as to both gays and straights.
There is much humor here as well as indignation and an acerbic wit. His other
published works include Coming Out Twice and The Astonishment of the Heart.
THE GROVES * by Edward Proffitt
How Bureaucracy Works & but first, a little chee chee
a memoir of recovery and hope
Trade Paperback; $20.99; 134 pages; 978-1-4257-6562-0
Cloth Hardback; $30.99; 134 pages; 978-1-4257-6563-7
To request a complimentary paperback review copy, contact the publisher at
(888) 795-4274 x. 7836. Tearsheets may be sent by regular or electronic mail to
Marketing Services. To purchase copies of the book for resale, please fax
Xlibris at (610) 915-0294 or call (888) 795-4274 x.7876.
Xlibris books can be purchased at Xlibris bookstore. For more information,
contact Xlibris at (888) 795-4274 or on the web at www.Xlibris.com.
CONTACT:
Xlibris
Marketing Services
(888) 795-4274 x. 7836
LOAD-DATE: January 30, 2008
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