Djelloul (Del)
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"Saraceno"
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73 years old
GERMANTOWN, NEW YORK
United States
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | New York City | | Body type: | 0' 0" | | Religion: | Protestant | | Zodiac Sign: | Leo | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Some college | | Occupation: | Author |
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About me:
Djelloul (Del) Marbrook was born in Algiers, grew up in West Islip, Long Island, and Manhattan,and worked as a soda jerk, newspaper vendor, messenger, theater and nightclub concessionaire, and served in the U.S. Navy and merchant marine.
He was a reporter for The Providence Journal and an editor for The Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette, The Baltimore Sun, The Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, The Washington Star and Media News newspapers in northeast Ohio and Patterson and Passaic, NJ. His poems, essays and short stories have appeared in a number of journals.
Del is also a senior editor with The Student Operated Press.
"Del is one of the most brillant writer's I have ever read. He's a cross between G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis" said Judyth Piazza.
His unpublished work includes three novels, Divers' Angels,Crowds of One and Zij, two novellas, The Pain of Wearing Our Faces and Artemisia's Wolf, and a collection of short stories, Later For You. A collection of his poems, Nail Me to This Moment, will be published in 2006 by Three Conditions Press in Baltimore. He is contributing editor of Arabesques Literary and Cultural Review, an online and print journal.
His published work includes Alice Miller’s Room and Saraceno. Alice Miller's Room is about the dirty little secret no intelligence service wants to uncover. It’s about the underlying cause of war, when all the rhetoric is stripped away. It’s about the worldwide scourge of child abuse as it plays out in the lives of four people in Baltimore, Maryland.
Over and over again the abused child, like Adolf Hitler, becomes the abuser. Psychological and verbal abuse may do even more damage than physical abuse. Alice Miller’s Room is a tribute to three adults, strangers at first, who resolve to break this cycle, and it’s an homage to Alice Miller, the great Swiss psychiatrist who sensitized the world to the horrors swept under the carpet in every nation.
Paolo Maio, an artist, sets out simply to fashion a magical room that will open the child’s mind to possibility rather than close in on him. Paolo can’t foresee that those who try to heal abused children discover themselves in the process. Into his plan he draws a young psychiatrist, her infant nephew, and a cutting-edge metallurgist. Their project becomes a magic carpet whisking them into the vast interior of their own lives and it confronts them with decisions that will define them for the rest of their lives.
Available from:
http://www.OnlineOriginals.com
Saraceno is about Billy Salviati who just wants to be a good soldier, to follow orders and live under the radar. It’s all going well until he meets Hettie Warshaw one night on a dark street in Hell’s Kitchen. Then his life unravels. Saraceno is the story of a hit man whose good looks are equalled only by his magical gift for friendship. He survives the vicissitudes of good looks, but his gift for friendship puts him in the crosshairs of friends and enemies.
When Mafia don Gran John dubs Billy Il Saraceno (saraCHAYno), it’s a compliment. He means Billy is shadowy, deadly and enigmatic. He also means Billy is a man born outside looking in, a marked man, as well as, in Mafia parlance, a made man. Billy roams Manhattan’s streets as the Arabs have roamed their deserts, unaccustomed to giving or getting quarter. He’s invaluable, but misunderstood. His mother’s Irish blood puts him outside La Famiglia.
To the Sicilians, who enjoyed a long period of prosperity and peace under Saracen rule before the Norman conquest of Sicily, Billy’s nickname has other connotations. In their collective unconscious they do not remember the Saracens the way the rest of the West views them to this day: marauders, Hagar’s children, their hand raised against everyone, and everyone’s hand raised against them.
Billy’s story, drawn from the author’s own boyhood experiences in Hell;s Kitchen, is an allegory for our time: we don’t really know anyone–we only think we do.
Now available from Open Book Press ($27.35 including shipping, P.O. Box 659, Lanoka Harbor, NJ, 08734), Amazon.com and will be distributed to libraries and bookstores through Baker & Taylor Inc. (btinfo@baker-taylor.e-mail.com).
Contact: dmmarbrook@earthlink.net
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