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About The Book
Mount Everest In Flip Flops
By any standard, it was an impossible crush I had on her. She was Mt. Everest, a knockout nurse seven years older, in 1972 the difference between Bob Dylan and the Beatles. Almost nowhere else could I have caught her, except for the one place we were, a Catholic summer camp, where isolation, proximity, and time could suspend normal convention just enough for it to happen. “Jake, she’s out of your league,” a friend says. “She’s Mt. Everest and your wearing flip-flops.”
Summer love was never so sweet. But the story ends with the greatest stain on the Catholic Church in a thousand years, a pedophile priest and the ultimate sanction.
About The Author
Terence Shannon
Terry was born and raised in the Greater Cincinnati area. Terry graduated from Ohio State University, and always wanted to be a writer. He is the proud father of three children. The oldest is Lizzie who lives in Milwaukee, and then there is Michael who is a sophomore in college and then his youngest is Jackson who will be graduating this year from high school. Terry is very proud of this family and they are great support to him throughout the years.
Terry attended Ohio State University and after receiving his undergraduate degree all he wanted to do is write novels. Since he was starting a family and had a job he did his writing mainly for a hobby but worked on his first novel called "What happen to the Indians: This story is a sci-fi thriller, which took him five years to write, The story makes an analogy between Columbus coming to America and aliens coming to colonize the earth, It is a very entertaining read especially for the sci-fi lover in all of us.
After this book was published Terry was still working a full time job and supporting his family so his writing was put on hold for a while. It took Terry over 15 years to write his next novel which is "Mt. Everest in Flip Flops".
This story is what Terry is most proud of (other than his family), When he started to write this novel he had no expectations about publishing or selling, He knew he just loves to write and he was doing something that makes him happy.
Mt. Everest in Flip Flops is his most loved novel that was written mainly because it touches home to him. It is a piece of fiction writing but it is about a childhood place he used to attend growing up in the Greater Cincinnati area. It only took three months for Terry to write this book. He has never been any happier during the writing of it either.
Even today after over 40 years of writing he is proud of this works and still after all of these years he still has the same childhood friends who has shared some of the memories with him from his writings.
Terry would like you to enjoy reading his books that are on this site and let him know how you like them., You can contact him through the website. He would love to hear from you and will answer any legitimate questions.
Happy Reading!!!!!