The Kuhreihen Melody

<p><strong>This book may be pre-ordered for shipment on its release date of December 3 2019.</strong></p><p>Once considered a disease nostalgia has been described as a yearning to return to "a past that never was "a place that can only be reached through the imagination. In its fifteen essays <em>The Kuhreihen Melody</em> examines nostalgia from various angles through an array of lenses. In the title essay the author revisits his ghost-ridden hometown. "Swimming with Oliver" presents a mosaic of memories of his watery friendship with author-neurologist Oliver Sacks ."The Strange Case of Arthur Silz "investigates the six­ty-year-old murder of a Greenwich Village artist on a mountain in Mexico while "The Opening Credits of <em>Rebel Without a Cause</em>" conducts a granular dissection of the first minute and twenty-three seconds of that iconic American film. From barbershops to stripes to a boy's drowning death blamed on the author<em>The Kuhreihen Melody </em>turns a wistful eye on bygone people places and things and finally on nostalgia itself.</p>