On the first anniversary of his wife's death, a widower finally begins removing his wife's things from their room with the help of his sister-in-law. The job nearly completed, his sister-in-law calls his attention to three boxes apparently hidden by his wife under their bed. He did not know they existed, and therefore what was in them. When he reads the stories, he begins to recognize similarities between characters in the stories and people he and Ellen had met, places they had been, and life situations they had...
On the first anniversary of his wife's death, a widower finally begins removing his wife's things from their room with the help of his sister-in-law. The job nearly completed, his sister-in-law calls his attention to three boxes apparently hidden by his wife under their bed. He did not know they existed, and therefore what was in them. When he reads the stories, he begins to recognize similarities between characters in the stories and people he and Ellen had met, places they had been, and life situations they had shared. As he reads the stories through a second time, they trigger memories, some wonderful, some painful, of their years together, and he orders the stories accordingly in his narrative. These stories become for him echoes of Ellen.
After his wife Ellen dies, a man discovers her trove of short stories, which had never been accepted for publication, and of which he had never been aware. The writings open new aspects of their relationship as he reconstructs their probable sources and is reminded of people and events in their lives that must have inspired them. ...I recommend a slow read: this reader put the book down to digest each story awhile before going on to the next.
bf oswald was born in 1934 in Lakewood, Ohio and lived in Bay Village, Ohio until he left home at age sixteen. He completed his high school education at Randolph Macon Academy, Front Royal, VA; earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, and a Masters in Counseling, starting his graduate work at Oberlin College and completing it at METHESCO, Delaware. Ohio.
During his adult life he served as a drill instructor in the U.S. Air Force, worked as a life guard at the Hotel Biloxi MacArthur, a short order cook in Meadville, a printer's devil in Philadelphia, and as a federal investigator working out of Baltimore. He relocated to his birth state and in various communities around North Central, Ohio was a high school teacher, minister, dairyman, contractor, and practiced as a psychotherapist - hypnotherapist, finally accepting an associate professorship at North Central Technical College, Mansfield, Ohio where he taught for twenty-five years and was awarded the honor of becoming the second Emeritus Professor in the college's history.
Oswald has taught 23 different courses that covered all aspects of human development and behavior from conception through dying and death, and created eighteen of those courses especially for the nursing, radiology, human services, and behavioral science curriculums. He also authored two textbooks: one on human sexuality, the other on aging, both published by the college; and contributed poetry, essays, and short fiction in the college literary journals.
He and his wife, Cynthia, have a combined family of four daughters and a son, eight grandchildren, and two great grandsons. When not at home in rural south central Florida they travel the country in an RV visiting family and friends or touring.
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Anonymous
Posted September 19, 2010
excellent book!
Echoes of Ellen is the type of book where you don't want to put it down. It keeps you wondering what the next few pages will reveal.
Highly recommend!
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