Skytrain Over Lake Winnipesaukee: A Novel of Magical Realism - Paperback

by Stewart H. Benedict (Editor), Davis Lowthert (Illustrator), Eugene C. Flinn (Author)

If, as you are going through your mail on a late autumn afternoon, you open a parcel with a slide and photographs of what appears to be a beautiful silver train soaring above the clouds high over a majestic lake without any visible means of support, and in the same envelope there is verification from the United States Air Force that this slide is authentic, not having been doctored in any way according to extensive tests, what would you do? Lisa and Paul O'Donnell, two high school teachers who received the parcel, sought to mail it to Bergen Townsend, the man whose name and address they found inside. But when the parcel was returned to them marked Recipient unknown. No forwarding address, the O'Donnells decided to spend their Thanksgiving break in Lake Winnipesaukee, NH, and see if they could locate Townsend and return his unusual slide. And here is where they encountered the strangest experience of their lives.

Author Biography

Eugene and Patricia Flinn, recently completed a two-volume satire on exclusive private schools in America, Penfield Prep. They have been writing together since their marriage in 1971. He began writing by contributing to Stars and Stripes in France during World War II. Flinn has had more than 100 short stories published in magazines in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and Australia. He also wrote for Life, Facts on File, and Good Housekeeping, was a Broadway first night-critic for six years, and was a reporter and editor on several daily newspapers. His other books include It Happened in Hoboken, One More For the Road, The Inn of the Seventy-Seven Clocks, The Counterfeit Nun and Trapped in The English Department. He has taught European and American Literature in several universities. The couple also wrote more than a dozen comedies and musicals performed in theaters in New York and New Jersey, one of which was highly praised by the late Brooks Atkinson, New York Times theater critic.