the old oak

by Ramon delacruz

Overview

Hilario and his two sisters were faced with a tragedy at a young age when they lost their mother. Although they were poor, they were raised by their aunt who took care of them like they were her own children.Hilario was granted with an opportunity to work at a chicken breeding farm for an important man, known as The Old Oak. Hilario's life transformed when the Old Oak was elected as the mayor of the second most prominent city of the county. Just when things turned for the better for Hilario, he encounters a setback when he discovers that his sister is having an affair with the farm manager. Unable to control his temper, Hilario beats up the man and gets fired from his job. When the farm is stricken by thieves, Hilario is implicated with a crime he didn't commit. Betrayed and confused, Hilario is faced with a choice between saving his life or preserving his integrity, tortured almost to death he confessed to a crime he never committed spending years in prison.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162002819
Publisher:	Ramon De la cruz
Publication date:	07/08/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	406 KB

About the Author

Ramon Delacruz? (born september 20, 1960) is a ?Dominican American? writer, fiction writing. Born in the province of Santiago, Dominican Republic, Delacruz studied economy in the Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic from 1982 to 1985. He quit school and migrated with his family to New York when he was 27 years old in 1987. He returned to Santiago with his family in 2002. He went back to school and got a ?Bachelor? degree in law from Pontificia Universidad Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in 2009 and shortly after graduating he returned to New York City. Early years Delacruz was born in SAJOMA in the province of Santiago, Dominican Republic. He was the third child in a family of five of a single mother. Throughout most of his early childhood, he lived with his mother. He migrated to the city of Santiago de los Caballeros when he was 14 years old. He attended Colegio Prof. Milagros Hernandez? ?and graduated from high school in 1982. The same year he attended UCMM of Santiago and started studying economy. In 1984 he married Rosa Marmol with whom he had 3 children, Oscar, Jonathan and Naudis. He quit school and immigrated to New York with his family in 1987. Since he was very young he was fascinated with writing and often was motivated by his teachers to become a writer. But it was only until he graduated from law school in 2009 when he really decided working very seriously on it. In 2008 he divorced his long time wife of 22 years which affected him emotionally and paused his studies for a whole semester which delayed his graduation, but at the same time inspired him to pursue his writing career. After graduating from law school he returned to New York City and took some workshop courses in Gotham school and once again was greatly motivated by his teacher who was an author and teacher at Presbyterian University. Since all the students had to write a short story to be analyzed in class, his teacher was fascinated with his story and style of narrating it, she strongly recommended him to pursue the writing career. His first book is already been publishedr entitled “Birds of a feather flock together” this book is about a married couple who try to succeed and do whatever they can to get it, ripping off their own family and friends and even the government