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THE WINTER TRAVELERS
Down East Books | 160 pages | ISBN 978-0892729227 | October 16, 2011
I was a small boy in the 1950s, and my grandmother often walked me through our little town and showed me the houses where soldiers had lived until the day that they left their parents for the Second World War, many of them taller than their fathers by then, but still young enough for the town to recall them as their mother's little boys.
WALKING WITH JACK
Doubleday | 352 pages | ISBN 978-0385536356 | May 14, 2013
A long-standing promise from a father to his five-year-old son.
A poignant diary that chronicles the journey
When Don Snyder was teaching the game of golf to his young son, Jack, they made a pact: if one day Jack became good enough to play on a pro golf tour, Don would walk beside him as his caddie.
WINTER DREAMS
Doubleday | 268 pages | ISBN 0385508506 | November 20, 2010
A moving novel about love, loss, and an extraordinary lifelong passion for golf, by the acclaimed author of The Cliff Walk and Fallen Angel. Ross Lansdale never knew his mother and father and grew up at St. Luke's Orphanage for Boys in the 1950s. The one person who took an interest in him was Father Martin, a Benedictine monk who understood the loneliness of an orphan’s life.
OF TIME AND MEMORY
Ballantine Books | 302 pages | ISBN 0345427696 | February 27, 2001
Don Snyder knew nothing about his mother aside from the terrible fact that she died at the age of nineteen, just sixteen days after giving birth to him and his twin brother. All his life Don had been too shy, too deeply pained to ask his father or grandparents to tell him the story of the lovely girl named Peggy Snyder--what delighted or troubled her, who her friends were, how she fell in love, what cut short her brief life.
NIGHT CROSSING
Knopf | 288 pages | ISBN 0375409068 | June 12, 2001
A novel of political intrigue (the time is 1998) with overtones of a classic Hitchcock thriller; a story of a romantic encounter—of two strangers suddenly invading each other’s lives.
Night Crossing carries us from a quiet Boston suburb to a wild pursuit across the northern counties of Ireland. The man and woman who find themselves bound together are from two different worlds.
FALLEN ANGEL
Washington Square Press | 304 pages | ISBN 0743422325 | November 1, 2001
The death of his estranged father draws Hollywood film executive Terry McQuinn back to the coastal Maine town of his roots and gives him the chance to make long-overdue peace with his late father, come to terms with the events of the past, and rediscover the mysteries of family and love.
Adapted into a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV production that aired December 2003.
THE CLIFF WALK
Back Bay Books | 272 pages | ISBN 978-0316803489 | July 20, 1998
Snyder's account of temporarily losing his way in life presents a heartrending and inspiring memoir that "confronts the not-so-secret fear that haunts every American who works for a living" ("Atlanta Journal-Constitution"). Author publicity.
A Father's Journey to Become His Son's Caddie
A Christmas Fable
A Novel
My Parents' Love Story
A Novel
A Novel
A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found
FROM THE POINT
Ivy Books | ISBN 978-0804103978 | 1988
Jack, Ross, and Casey, growing up in the 1960s, spend a summer together on Hancock Point. Ross is drafted, leaving Casey pregnant with a child she aborts. Their lives diverge till, in their mid-30s, Jack decides that "going back to Hancock Point would give them all a chance to see exactly what was left of their past." Though Ross is married, Casey decides to have his child. We see mainly Casey "crashing along . . . with wounds," as she indulges in a lot of morbid reminiscing.
A Novel
VETERANS PARK
Ivy Books | ISBN 978-0804102865 | March 12, 1988
At a distance, young men in uniform satisfy all our vague longings for grace and order. Bobbi Ann Mullens watched these young men from the time she was a little girl riding on her father's tractor, wedged between his knees when he sang his song to her, the song he sand when he took her to town perched like a parrot on his arm, the song he sand like a lullaby at night in her bedroom when the windmill in the backyard sliced the moon into narrow white bars of light that fell across her blankets.
A Novel
A SOLDIER'S DISGRACE
Yankee Books | 254 Pages | ISBN 978-0899091396 | September 1987
U.S. Army Maj. Ronald Alley survived three years in a North Korean prison camp only to be charged with collaboration on his return to freedom. Found guilty, he was dishonorably discharged and sent to Leavenworth, the only U.S. officer in this century to receive such a sentence. This riveting book reveals what Sen. William Cohen of Maine, a partisan of the late Alley, has called a gross violation of justice.
A Novel