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Postmark: Paris—Destination: Unknown
Postmark: Paris—Destination: Unknown is the story of young love and young adventure, between a privileged young woman and her boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.
Eva Gabriele is off touring the Continent. Paul Daly has been left behind to work and dream and count the days until Eva's return. It is the summer of 1969, a year of fading hopes and dreams in a troubled world.
When a telegram arrives from Eva, announcing that she is pregnant, Paul abandons all and rushes off to intercept her in Paris, expecting the two of them will forge a new life together with the help of Eva’s rich uncle in Turin. Paul has no idea that mere caprice has swept him across the Seven Seas and that Eva is no longer pregnant until he arrives in Paris. A whirlwind tryst ensues but Eva soon jets home and Paul is abandoned in Europe with barely a hundred dollars to his name, no return ticket and the reasons for his headlong journey rendered pointless.
Paul has little choice but to forge ahead and make the most of his unexpected journey, and that he does, from Paris to Pamplona, Barcelona to the Balearic Islands and back to the coast of Cinque Terra, one wondrous adventure following another, his youthful dreams of travel fulfilled, yet his heart ever haunted by his love for Eva and the mystery behind her purported pregnancy. Was she ever with his child? And if not, what would have caused her to engage in such a deception?
Postmark: Paris—Destination: Unknown. A tale of love and war like no other. Buy it today to learn the startling truth behind this youthful tale of adventure.
Eva Gabriele is off touring the Continent. Paul Daly has been left behind to work and dream and count the days until Eva's return. It is the summer of 1969, a year of fading hopes and dreams in a troubled world.
When a telegram arrives from Eva, announcing that she is pregnant, Paul abandons all and rushes off to intercept her in Paris, expecting the two of them will forge a new life together with the help of Eva’s rich uncle in Turin. Paul has no idea that mere caprice has swept him across the Seven Seas and that Eva is no longer pregnant until he arrives in Paris. A whirlwind tryst ensues but Eva soon jets home and Paul is abandoned in Europe with barely a hundred dollars to his name, no return ticket and the reasons for his headlong journey rendered pointless.
Paul has little choice but to forge ahead and make the most of his unexpected journey, and that he does, from Paris to Pamplona, Barcelona to the Balearic Islands and back to the coast of Cinque Terra, one wondrous adventure following another, his youthful dreams of travel fulfilled, yet his heart ever haunted by his love for Eva and the mystery behind her purported pregnancy. Was she ever with his child? And if not, what would have caused her to engage in such a deception?
Postmark: Paris—Destination: Unknown. A tale of love and war like no other. Buy it today to learn the startling truth behind this youthful tale of adventure.
220 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 19, 2016
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About the author
Gary Paul Corcoran
14 books17 followersThe product of an Irish/Italian family, Mr. Corcoran was transplanted as a boy from the clapboard New England of his youth to the cookie cutter, stucco subdivisions that began to litter the disappearing ranches and orange groves south of Los Angeles in the 1960s.
True to his rebellious nature and the folk music/coffee house idealism that helped shape his early worldview, Mr. Corcoran chose to resist the Vietnam War, was a man without a country for several years and can count incarceration in a Mexican prison as one of his many colorful experiences during that era.
Having pursued a love of reading and writing in various forms all his life, Mr. Corcoran finally took this passion seriously around the turn of the millennium and has dedicated the remainder of his days to authorship.
The author of eight previous novels, Mr. Corcoran’s rough and tumble early experiences animate all of his literary works, from his Michael Devlin crime series to his special forces adventures to his tales of romance. Mr. Corcoran is currently working on a sequel to Afghan’s Lipstick Warriors and expects to publish it by the end of 2021.
In completing the karmic circle, the author recently returned to the New England of his youth and now resides along the coast of Rhode Island.
True to his rebellious nature and the folk music/coffee house idealism that helped shape his early worldview, Mr. Corcoran chose to resist the Vietnam War, was a man without a country for several years and can count incarceration in a Mexican prison as one of his many colorful experiences during that era.
Having pursued a love of reading and writing in various forms all his life, Mr. Corcoran finally took this passion seriously around the turn of the millennium and has dedicated the remainder of his days to authorship.
The author of eight previous novels, Mr. Corcoran’s rough and tumble early experiences animate all of his literary works, from his Michael Devlin crime series to his special forces adventures to his tales of romance. Mr. Corcoran is currently working on a sequel to Afghan’s Lipstick Warriors and expects to publish it by the end of 2021.
In completing the karmic circle, the author recently returned to the New England of his youth and now resides along the coast of Rhode Island.
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August 25, 2016
A wonderful weekend escape to Europe without ever leaving the house!! Oh to be Paulo...
January 10, 2017
I won this book from Goodreads Giveaways. Thank you.
October 17, 2016
I won this book on Goodreads Giveaways. It was also autographed. This was the story of Paul Daly in Europe when his girlfriend abandons him and how he survives with no money. It was a quick read and a good lesson for someone who has no ambition or discipline in his life. It was just a wild, carefree trip. The women he meets, the drinking, drugs, etc. It did not really have any substance. It was his love for Eva that gets him in this situation. It was a light-hearted fantasy. I know that young people do go to Europe and travel around hitchhiking, etc. I just could not relate to this story. It did not take me away.
August 29, 2016
I received an autographed of the copy book from Goodreads giveaway for my honest opinion of the book. It is a quick read. I somewhat enjoyed the book. It seems that every couple of chapter's when the main character went to a new locale, it was the same situation over and over again, with few variations. I was reading groundhog day in book form. The main character was too predictable.
April 5, 2017
About the wanderings of a young man and the things he leaves behind.
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