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Posted: 03/04/2010
Meet local author Mark Carp for a book signing at Greetings & Readings on Saturday, April 3 from 1 to 3 p.m.
Meet Mark Carp and discover his newest novel, The End of Hell. It's a story of a man who's seen everything from the storming of Normandy Beach to New York City on 9/11. Can there ever be an end to this hell?
The author of Abraham: The Last Jew and The Extraordinary Times of Ordinary People, Mark Carp lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland and a Master's degree from The Johns Hopkins University.
Both novels detail the lives of Jewish characters who struggle to survive their individual settings.
The Extraordinary Times of Ordinary People watches as Alvin Carpman goes through life with a foreboding sense of the world. A Jewish emigre who is fortunate to leave Germany after Kristallnacht in 1938, he settles in Baltimore and begins a nurses' uniform manufacturing business following World War II. From there, his life unfolds to entail professional battles, extra-marital affairs and even murder.
Abraham: The Last Jew is set in the year 2250, and once again a Holocaust is leading to the extermination of the world's Jews. Levi Bushkin is among those bent on survival.
The Extraordinary Times of Ordinary People watches as Alvin Carpman goes through life with a foreboding sense of the world. A Jewish emigre who is fortunate to leave Germany after Kristallnacht in 1938, he settles in Baltimore and begins a nurses' uniform manufacturing business following World War II. From there, his life unfolds to entail professional battles, extra-marital affairs and even murder.