The Road Less Taken - Book 1, by Theodore Jerome Cohen
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The Road Less Taken
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The Road Less Taken - Book 1

Theodore Jerome Cohen's first serious attempt to write a short story for publication was in 1962 while he was working in Antarctica. The story he penned - about a man killed by a pod of orcas - was
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lost during his return to the United States. It wasn't until 2009, when he resurrected the tale
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and incorporated it in his post-modern novel, Frozen in Time, Murder at the Bottom of the World, that the horror of the episode, which was based on a real encounter by three Chilean Army enlisted men with a pod of orcas, appeared in print. Time did not dim the horror of what
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happened at sea that day! Now, this story and others - unusual stories about Ted's life as a violinist, about a woman who seeks the help of a fortune teller to divine the future of her daughter, and about a university professor obsessed with the making of coffee - are vividly brought to life in the collection of short stories found in this book.

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Praise for Theodore Jerome Cohen's Writing Style:

"Brilliant! Above all, Cohen is a masterful storyteller." ~ Mark Mitchell, former editorial page writer for
The Wall Street Journal

"Cohen is a writing virtuoso!" ~ Gary Sorkin for Pacific Book Review
"A fresh voice in literary journalism." ~ Richard Blake for Readers Views
"Great entertainment . . . sure to delight." ~ Lee Ashcroft for Readers' Favorite
"Stands out from the crowd." ~ Krista Schnee for Hollywood Book Review
"The subtlety of Theodore Jerome Cohen's writing lies in his ability to create a fascinating story within the folds of what appears to be another mundane story about everyday life, but which turns out to be just as fascinating as the first." ~ Joel R. Dennstedt for Readers' Favorite

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"Each One perfect word quickly comes to mind when trying to distill the effect of Theodore Jerome Cohen's collection of short (truly short) stories in The Road Less Taken. The word is: Gripping." ~ Joel R. Dennstedt for Readers' Favorite

"One perfect word quickly comes to mind when trying to distill the effect of Theodore Jerome Cohen's collection of short (truly short) stories in The Road Less Taken. The word is: Gripping. And I do not use that word lightly. I mean, utterly, sometimes devastatingly, gripping. Almost in the literal sense that these narratives - some more like vignettes - reach out to grasp your attention and your mind and threaten to pull your body deep inside their imaginative but all too physical reality. The brief nature of each story works to its advantage, as if one is given a tantalizing but gripping - there's that inevitable adjective again – glimpse into a moment so intense and so fraught with consequence and pregnant with meaning, usually historical, one wants (but also fears) to hang around just to see the future outcome

"In The Road Less Taken, Theodore Jerome Cohen gives fair warning that truth and fiction are woven together closely, too closely for one to pick apart. Although this in large part explains the potency of these momentary glimpses into the past, it is Dr. Cohen's impeccable writing skills that give to them such a ... you know the word by now ... quality. One might be sharing an old friend's r evelation of meeting secretly at night, on a ship, with the three allied leaders of WWII where the presumably well-known friend startlingly turns out to offer the sole solution to the travesties caused by German U-boats, or one might be witnessing purely through a diary's late-to-come translation the dissolution of a young girl's mind. The feeling throughout this profound book is one of extremely personal secrets, with major historical importance much too long withheld, suddenly exposed. Reading Dr. Cohen's stories is a heady experience. And utterly, you know, gripping."