Böcker av Herbert Gold

When the global pandemic forced his ninety-six-year-old father into isolation, filmmaker Ari Gold became concerned that loneliness would kill his father's spirits. As a prolific novelist who began writing in his twenties, Herbert Gold's incredible oeuvre included twenty-four novels, five collections of stories and essays, and eight nonfiction books. So, Ari mailed his father a poem, asking for one in return. Later, Ari's twin brother, Ethan, also got into the game. Thus was launched a lifesaving literary correspondence, and a testament to the bonds of family.The resulting poems are playful, honest, funny, and moving. Secrets are invoked alongside personal – and often painful – history. Ari and Ethan’s mother, Herbert Gold’s second wife, died in a helicopter crash alongside the famous rock promoter and impresario Phil Graham in 1991. Her ghost roams through the poems and the wonderful archival photos included in full color throughout.In Father Verses Sons, a lushly illustrated “correspondence in poems,” ranges across the life, family, and death of a remarkable father. The father and his sons write tenderly of their hunger for connection, about the woman that all three men have lost (a mother, a wife), and about the passion that all three seek. Ultimately, these poems tell a singular story of men bumbling their way towards love.

Material contained in this book constitute an entirely new departure in the field of psychological study and experimentation.

In the course of an impressive career as a writer, Herbert Gold has demonstrated many gifts, among them his talent for mak-ing high drama of ordinary events, ordinary people

Five decades ago, award-winning author Herbert Gold traveled to Haiti on a Caribbean version of the Fulbright Scholarship

Herbert Gold first travelled to Haiti 50 years before the publication of this volume. The journey was a turning-point in his life. Here, he explores the secret life of this vibrant, volatile, violent land. He covers the questions of aid to Haiti, and foreign participation in the Haitian crisis.

Grounded in space and time, and yet speaking of universal concerns, this title includes essays that show how the ancient human scourges of poverty, ignorance, illness, and violence desecrate humanity and weaken the spirit.

An exploration of some of the not-so-happy problems confronting people in an age of mass destruction and mass inertia. Herbert Gold tackles issues that are very much of significance to the individual, dealing with topics as diverse as teaching, writing, love, marriage, divorce and death.

In this collection, Herbert Gold discards convention and combines fiction and non-fiction themes that have been important to him as a writer and social thinker. Topics include the miseries of Haiti, the disasters of Biafra, the hippies of San Francisco in the 1960s, and encounters with love.