ISBN 0-9747685-9-6
cover art by Robert B. Dance www.robertbdance.com
A
TIME OF MUSIC, A TIME OF MAGIC
by Joseph L. S. Terrell
2004 Reissue
Edition by Bella Rosa Books
6" x 9" Trade Paperback, 226 pages
Book Description
A literary novel about one weekend in the life of a dance band musician,
a bass player, who has accepted his own self-destruction through alcohol.
It takes place in a Southeastern beach town just when the big bands were
going out of style.
From the Back Cover
Danny McCullers was one of the people who made the music just when the
Big Bands were going out of style. He loved the life that set him and
his fellow musicians a bit apart from the rest of the world. His world
was on the bandstand with the colored lights going around, the horns hitting
it together, the laughing women dressed in beautiful clothes. It was hotel
rooms and all-night cafes and long automobile rides over deserted highways,
and, always, there had to be the whisky. But at only thirty-one, his world
was deteriorating fast, in a haze of alcohol.
At the end of summer, in a small beach town where the band was playing
a one-night stand, Danny came to realize that his life might be different—that
he still might make it different. He had only to make a choice.
Critic Review
"Terrell's genius is displayed in his characterization, not only
of Danny McCullers, but of his helpmates too...A TIME OF MUSIC- is in
the category of "I just couldn't put it down."
—South Bend (IN) Tribune
Also by Joseph
L. S. Terrell:
THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE
A NEUROTIC'S GUIDE TO SANE LIVING
Author Bio
Joseph Terrell, who now makes his home on the Outer Banks of North
Carolina continues writing fiction. While fiction is his first love, Terrell
has a publishing history that spans more than forty years and includes—of
course—fiction, but also true crime, psychology, agri-business, military
and government affairs, trade, plus just about everything in between.
He has written for newspapers, magazines, radio and television, advertising
and public relations.
A graduate in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, he was awarded a scholarship to the famed University of Iowa Writers
Workshop, but the Korean War interrupted his studies. After service as
a Special Agent in the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps, Terrell returned
to UNC to pursue graduate studies in journalism. He began his journalism
career as a staff writer for United Press International, then went on
to The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau covering the Pentagon.
Most of his career has been spent in Washington, including a stint as
press secretary for the Senate Agriculture Committee; he has also worked
for publications in North Carolina and Virginia.
His fiction has been published in The Carolina
Quarterly, where an early story won the publication's annual fiction award,
in men's magazines, and most recently he has won first place, twice, in
the National Press Club's Annual Short Fiction contest.
email to Joe Terrell: JLSTERRELL@aol.com
Meet the Author:
Saturday, June 28,
2008, 11am-5pm
Page After Page Bookstore
Elizabeth City, NC
July - Hatteras Island
October 20 - local book club
A TIME OF MUSIC,
A TIME OF MAGIC
by Joseph L. S. Terrell
2004 Reissue Edition
by Bella Rosa Books
6" x 9" Trade Paperback
226 pages: Retail: $14.95
ISBN 0-9747685-9-6
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