PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Oct. 18, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- How does bureaucracy work? Can homosexuality be cured? Unravel the answers from author Edward Proffitt's new book, The Groves: How Bureaucracy Works & but first, a little chee chee, another fantastic read that will appeal to readers with its witty humor and biting satire.
The Groves consists of two novellas found in one book. The first, How Bureaucracy Works, is a satirical tale on bureaucracy via academia while but first, a little chee chee pokes at the absurdity of the Vietnam War and of gays who enlist. As a writer of consummate skill, Proffitt skillfully employs humor in a satire that imparts wisdom and at the same time says something that touches us all. Going beyond the story's surface, readers will uncover deeper levels of enjoyment that will make them laugh, smile, grumble, grimace, and think.
Compact, concise yet wonderfully written, The Groves is an unexpectedly surprising treat that a wide audience will enjoy. To get a copy of this fun book, just visit a local book retailer near you or log on to Xlibris.com today.
About the Author
Once a full professor at Manhattan College, now retired and living in Palm Springs, Dr. Edward Proffitt began his writing career in late adolescence as a poet, at the time of his first coming out. Born in 1938, he experienced the horror of being gay in the 50s and early 60s. The demeaning situation "inverts" had to endure led him to enter psychotherapy and later to marry. He remained married for nearly thirty years, during which time he fathered two children and published extensively. However, because Errato had fled, he wrote no more poetry until after his second coming out at the end of the nineties, when the poems of both Home Erectus (his first book of poems) and now Ecce Homo poured out. Most concern the experience of being gay in the world as we have known it seen through a critical eye as to both gays and straights. There is much humor here as well as indignation and an acerbic wit.
THE GROVES * by Edward Proffitt
How Bureaucracy Works & but first, a little chee chee
a memoir of recovery and hope
Publication Date: September 17, 2007
Trade Paperback; $20.99; 134 pages; 978-1-4257-6562-0
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