George B Couper


Biography

George Couper lives in Santa Barbara California and graduated from UCSB with a BFA in 1977. He has worked for the Arts in Corrections program as an Artist/Facilitator at Vacaville's Correctional Medical Facility for the California Department of Corrections bringing into the prison artists, writers, poets, musicians and ceramicists for workshops. He presently volunteers working with homeless addicts and alcoholics. A Time Ago and Then is his first Novel (published on Smashwords: Aug. 9, 2011). His second publication is an illustrated novella, A Taxi Romance, published Nov. 13, 2011 on Smashwords.

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A Taxi Romance    by George B Couper
Price: $4.99 USD. 30250 words. Published on November 13, 2011. Fiction.

Max is a middle-aged cab-driving poet who, after a divorce, estrangement from his daughter and a series of relationships bordering on disaster, struggles with drug and alcohol addiction. An obsession with a wealthy addict drives him to hit bottom and discover a profound relationship with a dynamic inner resource.
A Time Ago And Then    by George B Couper
Price: $4.99 USD. 98610 words. Published on August 9, 2011. Fiction.

Max, a USN submariner, is laid up in a hospital with a broken back in the late sixties: there, he begins spiritual journey that takes him through LSD,the Altamont Speedway fiasco, to the communes of New Mexico, Jamaica and drug dealing in Miami. Ending up in Santa Barbara his misadventures touch on the violence, cults and religions of the era as he struggles to find peace within himself.

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