Time Chords

About the Book

Time Chords tells two deeply-felt stories based on true events: Stones: October, 1940. Joseph, an 8-year-old boy living on a farm in upstate New York is blindsided, then attacked and stoned by his classmates, an action set up by a manipulative, anti-Semitic teacher.

Drowning: July, 1943, portrays the boy's first encounter with death. Joseph leads two rabbi's sons, breaking into a weeds grown-wild deserted lake closed for the war. Another boy appears and a macho war game ends in a tragic drowning. Followed by a fierce interrogation and, wrestling with guilt, a search for elusive truth.

About the Author

Peter Simon Karp, author of Time Chord: Stones...Drowning, his first book of fiction, is a graduate of Hobart College, winner Milton Haight Turk prize for English, MFA Columbia University. His recent plays include “Bombing Innocents” and “His Magic Walking Stick.” Coauthor of “Competing on Value,” AMACOM. Founder BSI Global Research, Inc. and Concept Testing Institute, helped IBM, AT&T/Bell Labs, GE, FedEx & Fortune 500 companies develop some major 20th Century high-tech products/services.