Landscape With Figures

About the Book

Joe Williams gives up his secure job as a policemen to take over, with the help of his family (wife, father, and two sons), a bankrupt dairy farm in upstate New York during the height of the Great Depression. This is the story of their struggle to survive Told from the viewpoints of the various characters involved, the novel begins with the recollections of twelve-year-old Tracy. Here is that beginning.

About the Author

Joseph Cowley is the author of the novels Dust Be My Destiny (thebookden.com), The House on Huntington Hill (Xlibris.com), and The Chrysanthemum Garden (iUniverse.com), the drama The Stargazers (iUniverse.com), and, with Robert Weisselberg, The Executive Strategist, An Armchair Guide to Scientific Decision-Making (iUniverse.com). His articles have appeared in trade and science journals, and his short stories in Prairie Schooner, New-Story, The Maryland Review, Ohio Short Fiction, and other literary journals and anthologies. In addition, he has completed three full-length plays, two short novels, Home by Seven (which won a novel contest run by Epicenter Press) and Landscape with Figures (which placed eighth in a novel contest run by The National Writers Club), and a collection of shorter fiction called The Night Billy Was Born and Other Stories of Love and Lust. He is currently researching another play and writing a short novel called Don't Shoot--I'm Not the Enemy. .