Blue Blossom

by Connor Kerns

Overview

The novel Blue Blossom embraces the vast sweep of the Second World War across Europe and within one man’s soul. Johann Frühauf grows up in Spain during the 1930s. As a young man, he comes to love literature and intense romantic affairs, but war turns him into a reluctant German army officer, and by the end of the fighting he suffers a breakdown.

After the war, he escapes to the tranquil prosperity of the Western United States. Late in life, he seeks to mend his own spirit by writing a memoir and to give a gift to the woman he loves most: his old friend Frieda, the actress whose dream is to play Hamlet.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164751487
Publisher:	Connor Kerns
Publication date:	12/03/2020
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	363 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Mr. Kerns lives in Portland, Oregon. He started writing poetry at the age of 11, and his first published poetry book was Image Made Word (1990, Roan LTD).

Premieres of play adaptations of Jane Austen novels, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, were produced by Quintessence: Language & Imagination Theatre, where he was Artistic Director. Other productions of his plays include: Pride and Prejudice, The Child is Father of the Man, Face Reader, and Treatment (Quintessence); A Bawdy Tale (Montgomery Street Players); Zaney (Arts Equity); I Go to War and Vaward of Pallas 3 (Epicurean); The Folio (CoHo) and Where No Storms Come (Stark Raving Theatre).

He is also a director, having received his MFA in Directing at the University of Portland, and he taught acting for 24 years. His book Imaginative Doing, Collected Essays on Acting was published in 2013.