August Franza: 11 books

The Thirst We Have is about a day in the life of an embattled teacher. From dawn to bed time, Joe Monte dallies with his students, his colleagues, his wife, and his children. Bob, Son of Battle: His Confessions takes teacher Bob Stroonz through a school year to the summer where, in the Berkshires,...

AMERICA ARRIBA! is a comedy/satire about Don Quijote and Sancho Panza in the 21st century. A giant American fast food company convinces the author, Miguel Cervantes, to permit the famous duo to advertise burgers in South America. After the duo are educated In the realities of the modern world, they...

On a vacation in the Caribbean, Sam Gumbs lives an alternative life in LIZARD ON A WHITE WALL. Mark Nido, a strange employee, is protected by the supervisor of a company for reasons considered suspicious in THAT MAN. In THE LIFE I HAD IN MIND, kinds of love and ways of love are revealed in the lives...

Ray Romer has an automobile accident on his way home from a nursing facility where his wife is an Alzheimers patient. He is picked up and helped by a couple, Guy Anker, and his wife, Gail. What follows is a series of surprising and dramatic incidents in which they become a complex part of Rays troubled life.

A Family Failure is a novel about Hank Drummer, who spends his short life trying to overcome the pressures and demands of a powerful, aggressive, and tyrannical father. Because he can’t live up to expectations, Hank has turned to drinking for relief. As the novel opens, we find him in the Purple...

Jerry Floh ('flea' in German) is invited to a Southampton mansion by influential Buzzy Powers, a guy he knew growing up when his name was Buzzy Pulsky. Jerry has a bad memory of Buzzy and now, twenty-five years later, they have met by chance. Buzzy has risen to success in Hollywood while Jerry grinds...

Kate McCloud is a lost woman who wants to know if there is a difference between being alive and being dead. Other characters in this polyphonic novel are in the same condition because they are haunted by a lack of love and irresolution. The novel takes place in tropical Bibilonia, Henry's Bar, Washington, DC, and a Manhattan building where a lost play is trying to be reconstructed.

From the penthouse on the sixtieth floor of a high-rise building, he watches the planes hit the towers of World Trade Center. He is calm; he is tying his tie. The event is horrible. He thinks of the panicthe hurrying and scurrying. There is going to be a lot of destruction. He finishes tying his tie....

Joseph James Katharin, also known as JJ and Handsome, is a young man uncertain of his identity. Nave about the world, he is parentless, raised by a stern grandfather who thinks the worst of his grandson although he tries to love him. As problems load up on JJ, he seeks solace and equilibrium where...

I love the great despisers for they are the great adorers and arrows of longing for the other shore. - Friedrich Nietzsche

18 year old Mark Gamble is searching for his mother. Eager to reunite with her, he journeys across the U.S. from Long Island to Washington State. On his way, he encounters two young women & their families and a mystery man. What he finds is nothing he could ever have expected.