Gerald Everett Jones

Mr. Ballpoint

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In 1945, Milton Reynolds introduced the ballpoint to the United States and triggered the biggest single-day shopping riot in history at Gimbels in Manhattan. The Reynolds International Pen Company made $5 million in eight weeks during the first non-wartime Christmas season. Thereafter, increasing competition from established companies such as Eversharp triggered several years of the Pen Wars. An exuberant entrepreneur who had already made and lost several fortunes, Reynolds bragged that he stole it fair and square. This novel is told from his mild-mannered son Jim's point of view, about coping with Milton's outrageous schemes, then their sudd… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-9965438-2-8
EAN: 9780996543828
Produktnummer: 19081540
Verlag: Lapuerta
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.6 cm 377 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 377

Über den Autor

Gerald Everett Jones is a freelance writer who lives in Santa Monica, California. Preacher Finds a Corpse is his eighth novel. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the Dramatists Guild, Women's National Book Association, and Film Independent (FIND), as well as a director of the Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC). He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the College of Letters, Wesleyan University, where he studied under novelists Peter Boynton (Stone Island), F.D. Reeve (The Red Machines), and Jerzy Kosinski (The Painted Bird, Being There). He is the host of the GetPublished! Radio Show (getpublishedradio.com), and his book reviews are published on the Web by Splash Magazines Worldwide (splashmagazines.com).