Background
Cowley, Joseph Gilbert was born on October 9, 1923 in Yonkers, New York, United States. Son of Joseph Gilbert and Gertrude Hersey Cowley.
(The Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories is about ...)
The Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories is about love at all ages: the passionate affair of two teenagers; the delicate relationships between a brother and sister, their cousin, and their adotptive aunt and her dead husband; the obsession of a young man in his early twenties for an older woman; the love of a husband and his pregnant wife under straitened circumstances; an extra-marital affair between a divorced, unemployed writer and a beautiful married woman he meets in Alcoholics Anonymous; the unexpected love of a married woman in her fifties for another woman; the sentimental journey of an old man whose wife has recently died to find the love he left behind in war-torn England after World War II; and the loneliness of a woman nearing ninety who has no one, not even her husband, who is non compos mentis, to share her grief with over the death of her son.
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(This title was nominated for the Frankfurt eBook Awards. ...)
This title was nominated for the Frankfurt eBook Awards. The central figure of DUST BE MY DESTINY is Michael Reles, agent provocateur for the CIA. The novel moves with relentless passion as Reles and his sidekick, Pancho Gonzales, are caught up in the swift action of a band of rebels determined to overthrow the tyrant who rules his country with an iron hand. While the country and characters are strictly imaginary, the vivid writing makes the scenery and the people compulsively alive. Among the main characters are: Michael, a divorced man whose ideals force him into continuous danger as he battles to free an oppressed people; Pancho, a hot-tempered peasant who is oblivious to danger, except of the dark; Lillian Trebasco, a beautiful woman of the upper-class, ultimately willing to sacrifice her love for the cause; her brother Tony, a successful businessman who aids and abets the revolution; and the mysterious Colonel Calderone, cool, resourceful master-mind of the coup. This swift-moving novel reaches a climax when Michael and a group of commandos free Lillian from prison, kill the guards responsible for her rape, and in a taut scene bring the cruel dictator's life to an end. A page-turner, this novel, with its realistic touches, is bound to please the most discerning reader as well as those who simply want a good read.
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(Jack and Doris Oliver meet real estate agent Nancy Flesch...)
Jack and Doris Oliver meet real estate agent Nancy Flesch to complete the purchase of a house on Huntington hill next door to the mansion owned by the mysterious J. Pierson-Grenville. On the way home they discuss their thirteen-year-old son David, whom they have sent to a psychiatrist because of an imaginary friend. David recalls meeting this friend, Joseph, five months before they moved to Blainesville and how Joseph predicted their move. Their first evening in the new house, Jack reviews what he has learned about J. Pierson-Grenville from Nancy Flesch and newspaper clippings. Doris suggests they visit the mansion, but Jack says the gate is closed. When David says it isn´t, Jack makes a bet with him. To his surprise, they find the gate open. They proceed to the terrace in back for a better view. David, wakened from sleep in the middle of the night, sees Joseph on the lawn below, He joins him, until his parents, make him to return to the house. The next day, the Olivers recall what Nancy told them about Joseph. They learn more about him from the local bank manager. David, sitting in a park across the street, meets Lester, who reveals that he, too, has David´s ""gift."" Mowing the lawn the next day, David and his father have an altercation over the tractor mower and David runs into the woods. For the first time, Jack and Doris realize that something serious is wrong and that they are up against forces beyond their belief. They take David to the psychiatrist, Dr. Barkley, and confer with their local physician, Dr. Stone. David´s next session ends in the death of the psychiatrist and leaves David in a coma. Jack reads a book of poems by Joseph in the local library that thoroughly frighten him. He and David almost drown in the pond behind the mansion. The Olivers learn about other drownings in the pond under mysterious circumstances. Jack researches the drownings in the local library while David, supposedly wandering around town, pays a visit to Lester. He is punished for visiting Lester without his father´s permission and runs away again. Jack finds him in the mansion under Joseph´s spell. Lester, receiving psychic messages, seeks the aid of Father Martin, who prepare´s an exorcism. As they break into the mansion, Jack disappears through a mirror into a hell Joseph has prepared in the basement. Escaping at last, he finds the exorcism has cost the lives of Lester and Father Martin, not to mention Joseph. Some months later, when Joseph´s will is read, the Olivers find they have inherited the house on Huntington hill as well as Joseph´s fortune. But there are strings attached.
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(A classic in its field, The Executive Strategist is a dow...)
A classic in its field, The Executive Strategist is a down-to-earth guide to the techniques of scientific decision-making known as operations research or management science for busy executives and managers as well as the general reader. It suggests ways to solve basic problems involving inventory ("When is enough enough?"), competition ("How to tackle a smart opponent"), allocating resources ("Meeting the demand"), waiting lines ("Quicken the queue"), getting things done ("Concepts of control"), and search, information, and replacement ("The needle in the haystack"), plus problems in many other areas. The book begins simply with a case history from mythology (the judgment of Paris), builds gradually, introducing the reader step-by-step to all the complexities of today's management sciences, and concludes with a realistic formula for putting the methods to work. Filled with easy-to-follow charts and diagrams and delightful illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Al Ross, and written with a light touch and an easy-to-understand style, The Executive Strategist has been translated into several languages and been a best-seller overseas as well as in the United States. It is now available for the first time in paperback.
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(Here is Joseph Cowley at his best: Once More With Feeling...)
Here is Joseph Cowley at his best: Once More With Feeling: the touching story of an old man seeking a lost love after his wife dies; The Chrysanthemum Garden: a sensitive and moving novel about finding love later in life; Another Great Day: a novella about a man on a "lost weekend" at the moment his life is coming unraveled; He Says, She Says: the story of an unemployed writer and beautiful married woman who meet in Alcoholics Anonymous and fall in love, and the lesson it teaches them; and The Stargazers, a wonderful play about the conflict between the astronomers, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, as they struggled to find the secret of the solar system.
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(The Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories is about ...)
The Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories is about love at all ages: the passionate affair of two teenagers; the delicate relationships between a brother and sister, their cousin, and their adotptive aunt and her dead husband; the obsession of a young man in his early twenties for an older woman; the love of a husband and his pregnant wife under straitened circumstances; an extra-marital affair between a divorced, unemployed writer and a beautiful married woman he meets in Alcoholics Anonymous; the unexpected love of a married woman in her fifties for another woman; the sentimental journey of an old man whose wife has recently died to find the love he left behind in war-torn England after World War II; and the loneliness of a woman nearing ninety who has no one, not even her husband, who is non compos mentis, to share her grief with over the death of her son.
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(The Chrysanthemum Garden is a novel about two people, so ...)
The Chrysanthemum Garden is a novel about two people, so real, so authentic, so totally realized that as we watch them fall in love we feel we are finally being permitted to enter the magic kingdom of human heart. Morna Franklin and Denison McArdle are not adolescent, romantic stick figures, but mature humans who bear the scars, defeats, resignation and triumphs, that come from having lived full lives. But neither is, nor could ever be, prepared for the moment of unexpected grace that wrenches them from the lives they assumed they would always live. She is in her fifties, a mother and grandmother. He is seventy, a great American poet, a widower waiting benignly for his life to wind down. The novel is the story of their life together, a novel so transcendently beautiful that reading it is like an act of liberation and deliverance, from the cares of this life and from the fears of aging and death.
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Cowley, Joseph Gilbert was born on October 9, 1923 in Yonkers, New York, United States. Son of Joseph Gilbert and Gertrude Hersey Cowley.
Bachelor with honors, Columbia University, 1947. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1948.
Partner Writing-Editing Services, New York City, 1946-1947. Instructor English, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1948-1949. Salesman Allyn & Bacon, New York City, 1949-1954.
Sales promoter Home Life Insurance Company, 1954-1956. Editor, then managing editor Research Institute American, 1956-1982. Retired, 1982.
(The Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories is about ...)
(The Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories is about ...)
(Here is Joseph Cowley at his best: Once More With Feeling...)
(A classic in its field, The Executive Strategist is a dow...)
(The Chrysanthemum Garden is a novel about two people, so ...)
(Jack and Doris Oliver meet real estate agent Nancy Flesch...)
(This title was nominated for the Frankfurt eBook Awards. ...)
2nd lieutenant United States Army Air Force, 1943-1945, European Theatre of Operations.
Married Ruth Muriel Wilson, February 28, 1948. Children: Barbara, Charles, Jennifer, Joseph.