TITLE: Little Schoolboys
RELEASE DATE: June 30, 2017
AUTHOR: John Guzlowski
CATEGORIES: Historical/Thriller/Suspense
ISBN: 978-1544887913
IMPRINT: White Stag
KEYWORDS: pedophilia, Chicago, detectives, kidnapping, drugs, catholic
priests, murder
ONE LINER:
Two Chicago
detectives are called in by a nun to deal with a pedophile priest who is
apparently sexually abusing altar boys.
SYNOPSIS:
The novel is
set in the late psychedelic 1960s in Chicago. Two Chicago detectives are called
in by a nun to deal with a pedophile priest who is apparently sexually abusing
altar boys. Shortly afterward, the nun is found dead in her convent. The two
detectives are attempting to deal with both the pedophilia and the murder, but
the lead detective is distracted by the disappearance of his daughter who may
have been kidnapped by drug dealers.
AUTHOR BIO:
Born in a refugee camp after World War II, John Guzlowski came with his
family to the United States as a Displaced Person in 1951. His parents had been Polish slave laborers in
Nazi Germany. Growing up in the immigrant
and refugee neighborhoods around Humboldt Park in Chicago, he met hardware
store clerks with Auschwitz tattoos on their wrists, Polish cavalry officers
who still mourned for their dead comrades, and women who had walked from
Siberia to Iran to escape the Russians.
His poetry, fiction, and essays try to remember them and their voices.
His poems also remember his parents, who survived their slave labor
experiences in Nazi Germany. A number of these poems appear in his books
Language of Mules, Lightning and Ashes (Steel Toe Books), and Third Winter of
War: Buchenwald (Finishing Line Press).
Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz, reviewing the Polish translation of
Language of Mules, for the journal Tygodnik Powszechny, said, “This volume
astonished me.”
A Professor Emeritus at Eastern Illinois University, John Guzlowski
currently lives in Danville, Virginia, where he recently completed a novel
about the German soldiers who murdered his mother’s family during the Second
World War. The novel, Road of Bone, is
available from Cervena Barva Press and Amazon.
Garrison Keillor read Guzlowski’s poem “What My Father Believed” on his
program, The Writers Almanac.
Guzlowski’s other poems and stories have appeared in such national
journals as North American Review, Ontario Review, Rattle, Chattahoochee
Review, Atlanta Review, Nimrod, Crab Orchard Review, Marge, Poetry East,
Vocabula Review and in the anthology Blood to Remember: American Poets on the
Holocaust. He was the featured poet in
the 2007 edition of Spoon River Poetry Review.
Dr. Guzlowski’s critical essays on contemporary American, Polish, and
Jewish authors can be the found in such journals as Modern Fiction Studies,
Polish Review, Shofar, Polish American Studies, Critique: Studies in
Contemporary Fiction, and Studies in Jewish American Literature.
Guzlowski has done presentations about his parents and their experiences
at the Polish Embassy in Washington, DC, Yale University, Georgetown Univ., The
Polish Museum of America, The Polish Mission at Orchard Lake, Michigan, the
American Univ., and various other universities and colleges here and
abroad. A video of his presentation at
St. Francis College is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWmcyuOUfKg
His awards include Polish American Historical Association Creative Arts
Award, American Council for Polish Culture’s Cultural Achievement Award, and
the Illinois Arts Council’s $7500 Award for Poetry. He has also been short-listed for the
Bakeless Award and Eric Hoeffer Award, and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and
four Pushcart Prizes.
EMAIL: jzguzlowski@gmail.com
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