A TRIO OF TALES: 3 NOVELLAS

By Steve Shadow and Steven Schwartz

These 3 novellas, originally offered as e-books only under my pen name, Steve Shadow, are now collected in this new paperback edition.MICKEY THE MOPE tells the story of a young boy who runs away for a life in the Chicago streets with a dream of becoming a Mafia boss. This multi-generational story spans the years from the 1930's to the 50's. From Little Italy in Chicago to the Sicilian countryside this novella tells a finely layered tale of the hopes and dreams that obsess both the working class and the criminal class as seen from the unforgiving city streets.WIDOW WILEY finds Amanda Hicks, a recent college graduate, leaving Chicago in the early 60's to tend to an ailing aunt in rural Georgia. What she finds there both confirms her idea of Southern life and also shows her things she never dreamed of. COIL, a Crow Indian, finds himself lost in a white man's world. From a disastrous upbringing on a reservation in Montana to a life of drifting and dead-end jobs he finds himself in Chicago caring for an old Navajo with rare skills. Together they try to forge a new life only to find once again that America has no use for them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1796590312
• ISBN13: 9781796590319
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.0"