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    Of Bliss and Granted Wishes

    By H.D. Greaves

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    Of Bliss and Granted Wishes is a true story of two remarkable individuals: Sophie and Sam Foster. The names are changed, but the locations are accurate, though not specifically identified, in Seattle, Washington.
    Told in a non-linear style of recollected fragments and diary entries, the story spans the decades of their life together, from 1934, when they met (“as infants of thirty,” in Sophie’s words), through Sam’s loss of memory (diagnosed as Alzheimer’s) at the tender age of ninety-two, and concludes in the present.
    Sam’s ebullience and mischievous wit blends with Sophie’s quiet mirth and wisdom, giving readers a rare opportunity to experience a sublime portrait, in the words of Eleanor Roosevelt, of “people who really are excitingly happy” throughout their extremely long lives.
    At the age of eighty-eight, to avoid retiring to a nursing home, they remodel their house and ask a family (mother, father, three young children, and a dog!) to move in with them. Never having had children or a dog of their own, this situation could have been catastrophic, but turns out as joyous discovery.
    Filled with humor, rich with compassion, undying love, and a determined refusal to give in to decrepitude and illness, their story is proof that, in the words of Ireland’s great poet, Thomas Moore, “the heart that has truly loved never forgets.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherH.D. Greaves
    Release dateMar 7, 2013
    ISBN9781301572991
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    Of Bliss and Granted Wishes
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    H.D. Greaves

    How about a story, a joke, a quip, a witty remark? H.D. Greaves, who lives in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, where he was born and raised, can give you all of those, as he does his good friends all the time. Indeed, he is well known for his outrageous sense of humour. Although he has travelled extensively, his island home has always held a special place in his heart. Now in his seventies, he continues to write new novels and short stories, as well as regaling his friends with his whimsical comments. He sings too! (To which his friends, with rolling eyes, say, "Oh, God, help us!") Fourteen of his books are now on Amazon Create Space Print on Demand hardcopy, for all readers who prefer holding a book in hand rather than reading ebooks via an ereader such as a Kindle or a Kobo or a Nook. These books can now be purchased in hardcopy through Amazon: MANDRAGORA - A Ribald and Irreverent Tale from the Italian Renaissance, has, since its publication as an ebook on Smashwords, has gained thus far five excellent reviews (on Amazon/Kindle), as well as a fine critique on The Podler Review of Books. An outrageous satirical comedy, it continues to delight readers with its wit, sexual situations, and sleazy characters. OF BLISS AND GRANTED WISHES - A True Story Told as a Novel, is about aging and an ageless love, and yes, it's all true. THE NARRATIVE VOICE - Nine Intriguing Stories and a Novella: The Witch of Tabaquite, is proof that with perseverance (and not a little luck), it is never too late to create and to succeed. POONKY DOODLES - A Novel of Growth and Survival. DRAMATIS PERSONAE - Poems of Comedy and Tragedy, a book with a wide variety of poems SEVEN PLAYS - A collection of plays - one acts, full-length epics, all suitable for all ages, comedies and melodramas. Available on Smashwords are his plays as individual playscripts: ATASCADERO! and INCIDENT IN A DUCKYARD are unusual adaptations of stories by Hans Christian Andersen. Other plays are GNATWING! - A Farce for Clowns, THE FIREBIRD, DISAGREEMENT IN EDEN, and the ever popular RUMPLESTILZKIN. H.D. is currently working on another novel: CLIZIA – A Tale of Scandalous Surprises, based on an Italian Renaissance comedy by Niccolò Machiavelli.

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