Cold Coffee

By Bert Brun

1918, Bergen, Norway, and handsome Navy Lt. Eric Andersen meets and marries spirited "Bus" Holmboe. They emigrate to booming 1920s California, where Eric's film industry job brings in money for stock investments which promise to make him rich.
The Depression strikes, they lose everything and, with two young daughters, wind up in 1930s New York, they're soon on the dole. WPA work fails to restore Eric's pride; he broods and drinks and the couple split. Eric heads for Newfoundland war work, as BUS finds work too, reveling in her newfound independence. In her heart, though, she still lovesEric.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bert Brun
• Release date: Oct 18, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465876560

Bert Brun

Retired oceanographer. Also worked as a high school teacher, rubber plantation inspector in Sumatra, and fisheries administrator in New Zealand. Bachelor and master degrees in science from New York state universities. First got the writing bug while in college and have published eight books in last 10 years plus three plays produced. Lived in eight states, most recently in Alabama, with wife Ann, four dogs and seven cats.

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