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First published in 2011, The Flash of Midnight sounded an alarm about the sexual abuse of children in both the entertainment industry and in seemingly "normal" households at a time when the subject was rarely mentioned openly. Laurie Norber, the protagonist of The Flash of Midnight, is a survivor of rape and child abuse who has somehow managed to retain both a sense of humor and a positive outlook towards the future. Taking its inspiration from Voltaire's Candide, the novel moves like a rollercoaster as it recounts the bisexual escapades of a young woman who suffers through one failed romantic encounter after another, always believing that true love is just around the corner. Author Robert Armin uses his experience as a volunteer rape intervention counselor in the 1980s to bring authenticity to his writing, giving voice to a diverse group of women, each of whom deals with their emotional baggage in a different way. The Flash of Midnight is an authentic portrait of a nation facing a "sexual revolution" at a time when both men and women were breaking through traditional boundaries and exploring previously taboo forms of romantic expression.Following a reckless and uninhibited post-graduation spree in London and Prague during the Summer of 1968, 20-year-old leap-year baby Laurie Norber finds herself pregnant and none too sure of who the father is. It could be a young Czechoslovakian musician or any one of the many men who shared his bed with him and Laurie. Or it could be rock star George Harrison of the Beatles, with whom she had a brief but memorable sexual encounter.Hoping for one last adventure before motherhood changes her life forever, Laurie sets out on a cross-country drive from New York to Los Angeles with her childhood friend, Kim Zerbe, during which long-concealed secrets are revealed with life-shattering consequences. During the next six months, Laurie will bounce from one romantic escapade to another, encountering a diverse string of lovers and potential lovers, including a middle-aged man who thinks she's 16, a young man with limited sexual experience, a famous character actress with secrets of her own, a beautiful and seemingly flawless teenaged starlet, an ambitious young actress who gives her shelter from the storm, an aggressive security guard, a Hollywood Blvd hooker, and an amateur photographer with decidedly kinky tastes.But the adventure doesn't end when she returns to New York to have her baby, for Laurie will soon find herself at the epicenter of an event that will have lasting consequences on the social history of America.

When the Atlanta-born Paul Ford first fell in love with the American musical theatre at the age of five, after seeing the movie version of Rodgers & Hammerstein''s South Pacific, he never imagined that his future skills as a "piano thumper" would lead him to a career on Broadway playing rehearsals or in the "pit" for such classic Stephen Sondheim musicals as Sunday in the Park with George, Follies in Concert, Into the Woods, Assassins (both off-Broadway and the Broadway revival), Passion, the 2005 production of Pacific Overtures, Wiseguys, Stephen Sondheim at Carnegie Hall, and numerous concerts, birthday tributes, and television spectaculars. In two of his Tony award acceptance speeches, Sondheim publicly declared Paul Ford the "indefatigable master of the musical theatre" and "the world''s most tireless rehearsal pianist and a walking memory bank of every song that has ever been written for any musical on any continent."For more than 25 years, Paul Ford was also Mandy Patinkin''s exclusive accompanist and musical collaborator on a series of recordings and live concerts that took the duo from Broadway to London to Australia and beyond. Patinkin offers a heartfelt tribute to his former associate in the book''s Foreword.Now retired, the candid (and admittedly opinionated) author looks back on the performances and personalities that defined the American musical theatre in the waning years of the Twentieth Century. Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Donna Murphy, Elaine Stritch, Victor Garber, Bob Fosse, Gwen Verdon, Stockard Channing, Donna McKechnie, Lauren Bacall, Chita Rivera, Liza Minnelli, Martin Charnin, Liv Ullman, Teresa Stratas, Charles Strouse, Harve Presnell, Nancy Walker, James Lapine, Madonna, Mario Cantone, Warren Beatty, Julie Harris, Michael Cerveris, Debra Monk, Leonard Bernstein and, of course, Stephen Sondheim, are just a few of the legendary Broadway and Hollywood performers and creators who are lovingly (and sometimes not so lovingly) recalled in Paul Ford''s honest and vivid account of his life and work both on and off-Broadway. He also provides a portrait of his conflicted childhood in Atlanta, Georgia as a "sissy piano player," followed by a self-destructive period of alcoholism. Miraculously, a haunting encounter in a Hell''s Kitchen saloon in May of 1995 with the leading lady of one of his favorite childhood movies, gave Ford the incentive to clean up his life.