Published: July 13, 2011
Words: 94778 (approximate)
Language: English

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Infidelity with heart & fidelity! "Harry & Ivory" is the unique story of an enthusiastic, white, family man and well-paid boat mechanic who becomes obsessed with black girls while never faltering in the love for his wife and children. Harry Schaffner's extra-marital desires come to a boil, however, when he becomes besotted with a young woman who would be considered strange for any race

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Infidelity with heart & fidelity! "Harry & Ivory" is the unique story of an enthusiastic, white, family man and boat mechanic who becomes obsessed with black girls while never faltering in the love for his wife and children. This touching and sometimes scary, double true-love story is set in Florida in the days just before home computers, cell phones, and bicycle helmets — and before the "War on Drugs". Harry Schaffner's extra-marital desires come to a boil, however, when he becomes besotted with a young woman who would be considered strange for any race. Trying to balance the love for his wife and children vis-a-vis the devil-black Ivory, Harry creates more excitement with this double life by having to keep happy the drug smuggling Cuban gang he does part-time work for in Miami. A story within the story involves Harry's family safely moved 600 miles away to a country place in the Florida panhandle, where his two, bratty children — unwelcome immigrants from Miami — become the sco... (Read more) Infidelity with heart & fidelity! "Harry & Ivory" is the unique story of an enthusiastic, white, family man and boat mechanic who becomes obsessed with black girls while never faltering in the love for his wife and children. This touching and sometimes scary, double true-love story is set in Florida in the days just before home computers, cell phones, and bicycle helmets — and before the "War on Drugs". Harry Schaffner's extra-marital desires come to a boil, however, when he becomes besotted with a young woman who would be considered strange for any race. Trying to balance the love for his wife and children vis-a-vis the devil-black Ivory, Harry creates more excitement with this double life by having to keep happy the drug smuggling Cuban gang he does part-time work for in Miami. A story within the story involves Harry's family safely moved 600 miles away to a country place in the Florida panhandle, where his two, bratty children — unwelcome immigrants from Miami — become the scourge of the bible-belt school they are now enrolled in. Readers will be turning the pages just for these outrageous early teens, but home-schoolers may want to hide this book under the bed for their language. Via the author's skill with both male and female viewpoints, readers of all ages and genders will be anticipating looking into every room of this dysfunctional yet happy family's world. Alternating between the treacherous and the beautiful, how this tale unravels its riches will be a joy for both men and women — and hard to forget.
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romance, crime, smuggling, rape, infidelity, miami, pulp fiction, dysfunctional family, marijuana farming, black girls, taboo sex, interracial sex, illicit sex, parenting a teenager, love marriage, 18 wheeler, semi truck, cuban exiles

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Review by: StreetWise Publications on Oct. 15, 2011 :
'Harry And Ivory' stands on my bookshelf (Lulu.com) alongside my Steinbeck and Hemingway. Aalborg writes in such a way it is almost as if you were sitting across the porch from him, swapping sips of a bottle of moonshine and listening to him tell you about Harry and his obsession, the black as night Ivory.
This is a literary classic waiting to be discovered. The relationships it explores are as dysfunctional as they come but they are very real and very believable. If the reader was honest with themselves, they would admit they have had their own moments of indecision and personal torment, deciding between what is right and what is good for them, what they should do and what they want to do above everything else they have ever done.
'Harry And Ivory' flows. Each line, each page just flows along, bubbling under the reader in such a way they want to know what happens next, they must know. It is really a feel good story, told well and with heart.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

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