From Baghdad To New York

About the Book

BLOOMSDAY: ULYSSES IN BOSTON Bloomsday brings to life in America the enduring epic poem of Homer's Odyssey and the rich Irish saga of James Joyce's Ulysses with a tale set in mid-June of 1974 on the streets of Boston shared by the American immigrant descendants of Leopold and Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus of Dublin. Bloomsday is the heartfelt epic of Rudy and Penelope Bloom of 27 Charles Street on Beacon Hill to prevail in the crucible of everyday life in their wandering and homecoming after an Irish wake for Tim Finnegan, where Rudy encounters Harvard Professor, Dr. Thomas Dedalus. >From Harvard Square, Beacon Hill and Haymarket Square to Copley Square, the Back Bay and Boston's notorious Combat Zone, Bloomsday is a tragicomic tale spun as jazz riffs improvising nimbly upon the baselines of the greatest epic of antiquity and the most celebrated novel of the 20th century. Lentz sheds new light in the pixels of his innovative, comedic style upon the immortal themes of love, duty and brotherhood told with a deep abiding respect for the timeless masterpieces on the legendary wandering home of Odysseus after the fall of Troy.

About the Author

Henry Murad is a pharmacist born in Baghdad, he had his primary education there. He graduated from Columbia College of pharmacy and adapted the new life. He managed many of the Whelan chain of drug stores in the fifties. In the early sixties he owend and operated the Buckingham Pharmacy which was located near the corner of Fifty seven street and sixth Avenue for almost forty years till retirement at the end of the century. He had a lot of experience in the retail pharmacy dealing with customers, doctors, celebraties and others. Since retirement he is volunteering in NYU medical and NY Presbyterian hospitals in the pharmacy department compounding medacine. He shares with you his experience of his life living in Baghdad and New York.