A Textured Web

About the Book

A member of the WWII generation discovers that his imperative mid-life search for emotional truth and the meaning of love entails painful choice and necessary losses. Set in the years of turbulent transition from the still recognized conventions of the 50s to the dramatic shift in social mores of the 60s, the story plays out in the complex social centrifuge of New York, its affluent suburban precincts and a small seacoast town farther up the New England coastline.

About the Author

Townsend Hoopes is the author of several prize-winning works of history and biography, including The Limits of Intervention (about the Vietnam War), The Devil and John Foster Dulles, and Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal. He served as a Marine Corps officer in World War II and has held high positions in the US Government, including Under Secretary of the Air Force. He was President of the Association of American Publishers, and is now a Senior Fellow of Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. This is his first novel.