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Frank Bergon cover of Jesse’s Ghost

Frank Bergon has had a longer writing career than I at first realized.  He is a novelist, critic, and essayist whose writings focus primarily on the history and environment of the American West.  His Nevada trilogy consists of three novels spanning a century from the Shoshone massacre of 1911 to the current battle over nuclear waste in the Nevada desert.

There is more at his Wordpress site: http://frankbergon.com/

Jesse’s Ghost is a novel based on a real crime involving people he and I both knew and were acquainted with, in the rural farming town on Highway 99. I did not know Frank. Though I was about two years younger than him, he attended the Catholic elementary school to 8^th grade, then too, in the high school the student population was 2,500 students. At some point to, he left town and to a different high school.

His writing is entertaining and his characters memorable as well as flawed, real, and vulnerable as we all are.  I think that novelizing true events is a tough job. Some will critique the work as, “it didn’t happen that way.” There are a couple things I could have mentioned as additional scenes never reported or revealed, but that’s life. Jesse’s Ghost was about as true as any non-fiction account, but it truly is a novel with all the emotion, motives, and point of views of those characters involved. Frank is a great author.

Tim

PS: The “Triggered Book Study” is still going on. As they say, “Hang in there.”

Tim’s book also:

THE DOC ~ Revised Edition
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Timothy J. Desmond
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