Echoes on a Crying Floor

A gripping sexual, lyrical, and spiritual journey, Echoes on a Crying Floor plunges the reader into the streets, cafes, souls, poetry, folk music, sexual hunger and despair of Paris and New York’s Greenwich Village of the 1960’s. David, an Underground filmmaker, Richard, a former Catholic seminarian and Yeshiva student, now turned artist, and Kelly, a poet and coffee house waitress, roam the streets and haunt the cafés in a continual, but chaotic, search for experience, sex and meaning. Later, all three become religious, which creates new conflicts and deep fissures in their souls. A chance meeting in Jerusalem in 1989 produces a shocking surprise. Years later, the horrors of terrorism, contemporary history and old age create new and final realities in their lives. The mix of fiction and memoir places the book in the tradition of Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Arthur Rimbaud, Lawrence Durrell, Anais Nin, and the gentle writings of Christopher Isherwood and Paul Zweig. But the unique characters, uncompromising passion, and flowing style sets Echoes on a Crying Floor apart from anything previously written, bringing the reader to the very essence of existence.