IMPEDIMENTS

by Lee Holz

Overview

The Sonnet Trilogy is about six people and spans two countries, two cultures and the societies in which they live. Their loves, losses, successes and failures take place in the turbulent 1950s and 1960s. In the US, the civil rights movement is under way. In Switzerland, the sexual revolution has dawned. In both countries, old attitudes and prejudices still prevail. Women's liberation is still unknown, yet a few brave pioneers are throwing off the bonds of gender stereotypes. Book I, Impediments, focuses on cousins Beatrice, Gerard and Paul. Born to privilege in Geneva, Switzerland, they are sophisticated, well educated and wealthy. Their relationships will be complicated by close family ties, Gerard's decision to go to the United States and Beatrice's determination to become a doctor, one of the very few women to do so in Switzerland in the 1950s. The Americans Sarah, Lily and Jack are introduced, but the impact of their relationships with the Swiss and one another is fully realized in Book II, Alteration, and Book III, True Minds.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013249912
Publisher:	Farm Road Publishing
Publication date:	10/27/2011
Series:	The Sonnet Trilogy , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	381
File size:	661 KB

About the Author

Lee Holz is a novelist, poet, opera fan and eclectic reader. He lived in Europe for many years, and his travels took him to Australia and more than thirty countries on five continents. A list of his novels and his collected poems can be found on the web at rleeholz.com. His novels include the Bowin war-on-terror thriller series and The Sonnet Trilogy. Lee lives in the country with his best-friend-lover-wife and their assorted feline buddies ‘far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife.’