FROM THE AUTHOR
AUTHOR’S EDITORIAL
NOVEL: A GREEN ISLAND IN A BLACK SEA
James R. Fisher, Jr., Ph.D.
“A Novel of the future in the mirror of the past!”
© September 11, 2014
South Africa in 1968 brought together an American outsider
to the confines of an outsider nation, the Afrikaner government and its
draconian practices of apartheid.
Young Seamus “Dirk” Devlin rose from the American working
class to executive status with the collapse of social and economic
stratification after World War Two.
The Devlin family entered this shadow world without protocol
or preparation. Europe was distracted by
clashes of students with politicians while the United States struggled with the
Civil Rights Movement and the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
and Senator Robert Kennedy.
Many pundits have claimed 1968 marked the end of the American
Century 32 years early. Meanwhile, the
United States, more than a score of years after a victorious World War Two,
entered its hegemony without protocol or preparation.
Dirk Devlin, like many Americans of his generation, was
forced into a leadership role by emerging circumstances. He wasn’t primed for this assignment to form
a new company in a culture of clashing values and repressive governance. Nor was the United States of America prepared
for its new role in the world order.
A GREEN ISLAND IN A BLACK SEA is a psycho-sexual drama
centered on Dirk Devlin and his American family played out against the milieu
of crumbling British colonial entitlement, Afrikaner intransigence, and a
world-weary morality in the mind of the times on the African continent in 1968.
It is the story of a man swept up in the dawn of a new era
where he feels betrayed by everything he once held sacred, but no longer finds
supportive, captive to free floating anxiety with no anchors in sight. It is a novel that asks the question: has
anything changed?
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