Background
Mr. Freda was born in Mobile, Alabama, United States, on December 3, 1951. He is a son of Matthew J. (an Air Force pilot) and Betty (a homemaker; maiden name, Robbins) Freda.
(It's the Summer of 1969, and it feels like the rules have...)
It's the Summer of 1969, and it feels like the rules have been suspended. The Woodstock festival is revving up at a neighbor's farm, the rock-and-roll culture is in full swing, astronauts are landing on the moon, and young men make plans to go to college . . . or to war. As eighteen-year-old Nick Lauria works the family campgrounds and leads canoe trips on the Delaware River, he feels the sting of first love and the fear-turned-pain of his friend's letters from Vietnam. His parents, meanwhile, struggle to keep the family business -- and themselves -- intact against the blandishments and secret dealings of their business partner. This is a novel of events on the verge. By turns boisterous and tender, sprawling and deeply familiar, its center is a world of young people growing up, a family falling apart, and a sun-dappled town in its final years before development arrives.
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In this funny, graceful, and keenly observed first novel, hailed as immensely winning by The New York Times Book Review, Joseph Freda takes readers into the town of Hurley, New Hampshire, to conjure suburban domestic life in both its pleasures and its darker side. A masterful metaphor for the dichotomy of modern suburban living.--Newsday.
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Mr. Freda was born in Mobile, Alabama, United States, on December 3, 1951. He is a son of Matthew J. (an Air Force pilot) and Betty (a homemaker; maiden name, Robbins) Freda.
Joseph Freda graduated from State University of New York, from which he received Bachelor of Arts in 1974. In 1978 he finished University of New Hampshire with Master of Arts degree.
Mr. Freda wortked at University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, as an instructor from 1977 to 1981. He was a senior software writer, editor, and system manager at Digital Equipment Corporation, Merrimack, NH, 1981-1984.
During the period of 1984-1988 he served as a communications manager at Tegra, Inc., Billerica, MA. Between 1988 and 1992 Mr. Freda was appointed product manager and in 1992-1994 manager of creative services at the same company. Since 1994 he acted as a creative director at Prepress Solutions, East Hanover, NJ. Startinf from 1995 he has been working as a freelance writer.
He was a contributor of short stories to Coffee Journal and New Writers.
(In this funny, graceful, and keenly observed first novel,...)
(It's the Summer of 1969, and it feels like the rules have...)
Joseph Freda married Elise Andkjar (an artist and writer) in June 9, 1974.
