Paris, Then and Now: Cook's Return

by Marquis Who's Who In America/The World writer Paul Heidelberg has recently been released.

To the general public, and to traditional publishers in particular, COOK'S RETURN A NOVEL OF THE LATE 20TH CENTURY, is now available in print and digital formats at www.amazon.com, www.bn.com. etc.

The author's intention is that a traditional publisher will team with writer Heidelberg to publish COOK'S RETURN under that house's imprint.

To the reading public: As of November, 2015, you can get my book at the above websites, etc. About that I say, do just that and enjoy a book that took very much hard work to start, work on intensely and finish.

A very brief description of the book: Artists create, love and learn on the idyllic Greek island of Crete and in Paris.

The novel has a strong female protagonist -- the Parisian painter Simone, who "paints what she wants to paint, not what art dealers want," but still succeeds at a big art gallery in Paris.

Now, with recent events in Paris, COOK'S RETURN has taken on a new meaning -- it is a record of France, Paris and Parisian artists in a world as it once was; a world that will never be the same.

　

Paul Heidelberg

November, 2015

New Mexico

(The novel was written in Florida after much time spent in Paris, and in Crete, during and after service in the U.S. Air Force at Iraklion Air Station near Iraklion. In Iraklion is the grave site of the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis, the author of ZORBA THE GREEK,

REPORT TO GRECO and other great books.)

Poem for Robert Creeley, W.A. Mozart and all departed Veterans

of all Lands in all Wars.


Here is the poem.




ANCIENT SPIRITS
(For Creeley)




Ancient Spirits
are moving
the tall, dried
Sunflowers
in the wind
and the fog.


PH




I was going to write this post, then decided not to, and then saw the NYSE and other U.S. markets were open today, Veterans Day 2015, and decided to write.


Can't the greedy ...expletives deleted... take a day off from their greed to honor those who died for their countries all over the world.


Ironically, I had been against the War in Vietnam since my sophomore year in high school, but ended up serving in the U.S. Air Force from 1966-70.


I was lucky to have lived three years in Italy and Greece.


But Veterans Day is not for Vets like me -- it is for those who died for their country, like my Uncle Dan, the youngest child in a large family who died in the Pacific in World War II.


Here is a solemn salute to Uncle Dan and all Vets from all Lands who gave their lives during War.


BTW, my novel


COOK'S RETURN
A NOVEL OF THE LATE 20TH CENTURY


was recently published and is available in print and digital formats at amazon, bn dot com, etc.


The book is set in Crete, Greece and in Paris.


I first visited both -- and lived on Crete -- while serving in the U.S. Air Force.




AGAIN, HERE IS A SALUTE TO ALL VETERANS OF ALL LANDS, AND THIS TIME LET ME INCLUDE THE ONES LIKE ME WHO LIVED.