Dick Carmel

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    • Introduction
    • Short Stories
    • Novel
    • Novel Excerpt
    • Reviews
    • Contact Me
  • Introduction
  • Short Stories
  • Novel
  • Novel Excerpt
  • Reviews
  • Contact Me
family love
senior love
happy family
unhappy family
husband wife
father son
mother son
love story

. . . an appealing wit and directness . . . (Kirkus Review)

Carmel writes this comparatively simple narrative with an appealing wit and  directness . . . .  At the center of it all is Zolly,   a wonderfully realized fictional creation  whose multifaceted portrayal grounds the entire book.  An intelligent and involving novel ....(Kirkus Review)

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Meet Zolly Berns, a middle-aged hustler who lands in jail when he refuses to give evidence against customers of his Rush Street bar. The feds  pressure Zolly's testimony by sending him to a coed prison--the Federal Correctional Institution, Lexington, Kentucky, where the government housed non-violent male and female offenders in a park-like setting where sex and cynicism mirrored life on the street. 


Zolly's comic exploration of the human condition ultimately surprises him with what he finds both around him and within himself. A spiritual journey is related from the perspective of a man who knows all the angles until he stumbled on one that cuts to the heart in this new religious fiction.

Short Stories of Love and Loss
Though We Have No Merits
long-term relationships
rejection reconcile



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