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DAVID
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D.H. ROBBINS
My historical novels are set during periods of cultural transformation that have shaped today’s society.
Through intricate narratives and richly developed characters, I invite you into stories that illuminate the past while reflecting the struggles, hopes, and uncertainties of our present.
My Novels:
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Boxing with Hemingway
Lovers among Friends within The Lost Generation
Paris, 1925.
Quentin Flynn has built a profitable career writing pulp—yet something vital is missing: a voice that will make him matter. Leaving Greenwich Village, he drifts into Montparnasse’s smoky bars and cafés, hunting the genius that keeps slipping through his fingers.
There he meets Sarah Feldman, a stuggling painter with a guarded heart. She becomes more than a muse—she becomes the measure of what Quentin cannot name: the courage to feel. As he sinks into drink, and a private war with doubt and desire, Sarah’s own life pivots toward a secret longing for Hannah, a celebrated artist from Vienna. Their intertwined searches force each to confront the compromises, betrayals, and small mercies that shape an artist’s life.
From the cafés of Paris to the salons of Vienna, the cabarets of Berlin and the evening streets of Florence, "Boxing with Hemingway" follows one man’s fight to find a true voice—and two women learning what it means to love in a world determined to define them. A tender, electric portrait of art, longing, and the cost of becoming oneself during the restless Jazz Age.
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The World of "Boxing with Hemingway"
PARIS AND NICE 1925-1929
THE 1960s Trilogy
Why did Connie Meuller commit suicide? Was it a mental issue? No one knew the answer when Iowa state troopers found her body in the aqua and white 1959 Desoto Firedome bundled in snow in a Iowa cornfield with the hose connected to its exhaust pipe. The smile on Connie’s face as she tumbled out of the car may have been a hint of her motive.
“The Tu-Tone Desoto” is an ensemble novel centering on the lives of seven Hanson, Iowa teens living in conflict with their parents' generation. Their internal conflicts take precedence over more worldly events of the Kennedy Years (1960-1963) as the teenage characters mature into adulthood.
By his own admission, the Reverend Thomas Barragan-Deavers is not a murderer. Instead, he prefers to think of himself as a ͞Liberator of Lost Souls.͟ Gender-conflicted, Thomas regards himself as a woman and his inner god directs him to snuff out his victims by hypnotizing them to accept the kind of absolution he has to offer them. As they die in his arms and by his hand, he absorbs their souls to fulfill what is lacking in his own.
His personal god and the stature of his presumed calling have ordained his rituals. With each of his liberations, Thomas believes he has purified his needy feminine alter ego: Chamelea. The story is set mainly in New York City in 1963-64.
“The Weight of Indifference” follows Daniel Lilienthal’s burgeoning career as a photojournalist through his coverage of the Watts riots in Los Angeles, the anti-war protests at Berkeley, the Monterey Pop festival, and the Summer of Love, and the San Francisco culture of the 1960s.
His newspaper then posts him in Saigon to cover the Vietnam war. There, he witnesses how the military powers can stifle the press, as they spin the war toward public relations. The Military Joint Public Affairs Office prevails over Daniel and his crew, until they happen upon the My Lai massacre in March 1968. Through its horror, that he makes a stand and comes to terms with his purpose in life.
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The Rise of Real America
Not in the Past, as this is Happening Now...
2028
It is January 2028 in a post-Democracy America.
By now, Demagogue-turned-Autocrat Alexander Kenton had forced his win of the 2020 American election through millions of planned, random “voting errors.” He soon abolished free elections, along with the bi-partisan Congress and Senate. The Judicial branch was now weighted in his favor, granting the now-Premier Kenton enormous executive powers over the nation he has re-named “Real-America.” Will the Neo-Publica resistance succeed in re-forming what had once made America a fair and just democracy before the Soviet-American alliance is established?
This is not fiction anymore. It is already happening.
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DAVID HYDE ROBBINS
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I have been actively writing fiction for nearly 30 years.
I have also created and produced a five-part lecture series, "The 1960's-Revisiting a Crucial Decade." In addition, I've taught learning module design and most recently a fiction-writing course/workshop. I now facilitate a casual bi-monthly online writers’ group. When I'm not writing, I am taking studio photographs. Also I like editing compositing some of my photography using A.I.
I grew up in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and currently live in Simsbury, Connecticut with my wife, Kate, and Gypsy, my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel -- and writing mate. She also makes some cameo appearances in "Boxing with Hemingway".
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