Marian With The Flaxen Hair
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Howard, a young journalism student, is just scraping through life at Wayne State University after the Army, using all the tricks he can conjure to get money. Then he meets Marian Herbaugh as new classes begin and his life is never the same. Marian is a wealthy Grosse Pointe girl, who had been at college in New York until her father had a heart attack. She came home to be with her family during her father’s final days. But the father’s illness stretched on and when the fall term began, Marian enrolled at Detroit’s working class university, Wayne State. Marian met Howard Keck in Contemporarily American Literature. From the first date, both were smitten with one another; there was no going back. But the dark abyss of their opposing economic backgrounds was waiting. From the onset, Marian’s father, after learning of his daughter’s affection for Howard, manages to recover from his heart malady, and sets a course to drive a wedge between the two lovers. The father is ruthless and he has only one rule; win, no matter what the cost. He goes to his silent business partner, Aschenbrenner, for help, and a sinister plan to crush Howard is launched. Marian, at the mercy of a determined father, listens to his condemnation of Howard and his future ability to make money to support her lifestyle. She wavers. A new suitor is quickly found for Marian, a man who meets all the criterion of the father. And once the marriage proposal is made, Howard is out. He wanders to Florida seeking relief from his loss, and is successful in being hired at Fort Lauderdale Newspaper. He becomes involved with people in the anti-Castro movement. Marian, who becomes aware she has made a mistake in her hasty marriage, wants to be free again, and contacts Howard to help her. Howard returns to Michigan and the two are united. But Marian’s father continues his campaign against Howard and is determined to salvage his daughter’s marriage. When the father urges the husband to take action, it results in an unexpected series of events no one expected.
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Howard, a young journalism student, is just scraping through life at Wayne State University after the Army, using all the tricks he can conjure to get money. Then he meets Marian Herbaugh as new classes begin and his life is never the same. Marian is a wealthy Grosse Pointe girl, who had been at college in New York until her father had a heart attack. She came home to be with her family during her father’s final days. But the father’s illness stretched on and when the fall term began, Marian enrolled at Detroit’s working class university, Wayne State. Marian met Howard Keck in Contemporarily American Literature. From the first date, both were smitten with one another; there was no going back. But the dark abyss of their opposing economic backgrounds was waiting. From the onset, Marian’s father, after learning of his daughter’s affection for Howard, manages to recover from his heart malady, and sets a course to drive a wedge between the two lovers. The father is ruthless and he has only one rule; win, no matter what the cost. He goes to his silent business partner, Aschenbrenner, for help, and a sinister plan to crush Howard is launched. Marian, at the mercy of a determined father, listens to his condemnation of Howard and his future ability to make money to support her lifestyle. She wavers. A new suitor is quickly found for Marian, a man who meets all the criterion of the father. And once the marriage proposal is made, Howard is out. He wanders to Florida seeking relief from his loss, and is successful in being hired at Fort Lauderdale Newspaper. He becomes involved with people in the anti-Castro movement. Marian, who becomes aware she has made a mistake in her hasty marriage, wants to be free again, and contacts Howard to help her. Howard returns to Michigan and the two are united. But Marian’s father continues his campaign against Howard and is determined to salvage his daughter’s marriage. When the father urges the husband to take action, it results in an unexpected series of events no one expected.
About the Author
When Donald Sinclair wrote a news story for his college newspaper regarding a campus fire, the dialogue of a hippy telling the event merited an honorable mention by the college press association “for the colorful use of the language (dialogue ). Fiction writing was already looming in the background. After graduating from Wayne State University in Detroit in 1963, and working through a serried of weekly newspapers, Sinclair took a trip to Florida where he became a reporter on the police beat for the Fort Lauderdale News. While in Florida, he began a Series names “Gold Coast Murder: Unsolved for the Sunday edition. It became a popular read, even the police clipped the stories for their files. The stories traced the investigations from the newspaper reports until the trail went cold. Sinclair began writing short stories and newspaper work began to fade, ending altogether when he began a novel. He travelled extensively; Canada, Mexico, all around the states in the U.S. Even returned to Europe where he had served with the Army in 1955. A major publisher turned his novel down. In 1997 while recovering from illness at the family home overlooking Lake St. Clair in Michigan, he re-wrote much of the novel. He submitted it this time to the new “electronic” publishing house taking the book On-line.