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    Poonky Doodles: A Novel of Growth and Survival

    By H.D. Greaves

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    We can never learn too much about the specifics of dysfunctional parents, those unfortunates who unknowingly, and only rarely with malice aforethought, create and pass on to their children so much havoc and such a heritage of hurt. How such wretched behaviour affects youngsters is, therefore, always worth the telling.
    On the Caribbean island of Trinidad during WWII, Arthur (nicknamed Poonky Doodles by his godfather), is born on Christmas Day. In this tropical paradise, his mother, Carmen, refuses to hold him, a bad sign of things to come. Over time, Arthur finds out just how conflicted her feelings are, and how they drastically affect his life.
    A sensitive and creatively gifted child, Arthur’s relationships with his godfather, and with Naomi Galilee, a black woman who is a member of the household, are paramount throughout his earliest years.
    Things change dramatically when Carmen marries an American GI and moves to the U.S., bringing along Arthur, his younger brother, and their maternal grandmother.
    Poonky Doodles shows Arthur growing from birth to a young man, and the triumphs and tragedies he encounters along the way.
    With a strong flavour of the Caribbean, and leavened throughout with humour as well as wisdom, Poonky Doodles is a story that will astonish, disturb, and surprise you with laughter and with tears.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherH.D. Greaves
    Release dateMay 5, 2014
    ISBN9781310803437
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    Poonky Doodles: A Novel of Growth and Survival
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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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