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Orchards of Almonds
Orchards of Almonds
Orchards of Almonds
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When thirty-five-year-old Bill Armature learns hes inherited a house in California, he leaves Detroit, Michigan, to deal with his new home. Armature believes his stay in Chico will be temporary and leases an apartment for just three months. Soon this man of many hatspolitical cartoonist, fisher, hunter, former footballer, father, and husbandfinds himself teaching at Chico State and fiddling in politics. He attempts to fathom the roots of love and fatherhoodof betrayal, death, and losswhile searching for ways to fill the lonely places inside.

Orchards of Almonds features characters that include Kennedys alive and dead, LBJ and company, and Ronald Reagan, along with California politicos, academics, Vietnam protesters, and movie stars. While weaving author Donald Junkins semi-autobiographical story, it provides an insiders view of California politics in the 1960s.

Praise for the work of Donald Junkins

Donald Junkins Half Hitch perfectly captures an American era and the story of a life caught in its baffling attitudes toward manhood, religion, and sex.

Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize and National Book award winner

Junkins is a highly regarded American poet and one of the worlds celebrated experts on Hemingway. How encouraging to see this stunning appearance in the world of the novel!

Robert Kaiser, Author, RFK Must Die
LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateApr 25, 2011
ISBN9781450299268
Orchards of Almonds
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Donald Junkins

Donald Junkins has published eleven books of poetry and two novels, plus Busters Book: a study of his familys contributions to American wars. He directed the MFA Program at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, for ten years and has won three National Endowment of the Arts awards. He also won the New Letters Prize for Poetry.

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