John G Ives
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John G. Ives is the author of three novels, including Pandaemonium Moon, now being published by Historium Press, as well as two non-fiction titles and an upcoming book of poetry. His novel, The Keeper (2013), is set in Provincetown in 1900, about the daring shipwreck rescues of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, with illustrations and cover by his daughter, Justine Ives; it sold nearly 2,000 copies in the Cape Cod area under their own imprint, Bohème Publishing. His first, unpublished, novel, After the End of the World, is a fantastic story of apocalyptic disaster and family loyalty set in Los Angeles. In 1992, he wrote a book featuring interviews with film director John Waters, part of the series American Originals, published by Thunder’s Mouth Press. At Bohème, he wrote an updated John Waters book (2016), and the Ciro and Sal’s Cookbook (2019).
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Pandaemonium Moon: A Novel of the Spanish Civil War
“Pandaemonium Moon is a startling and powerful work about one of the most dramatic eras of modern history. The rise of fascism and the war in Spain are rendered as if they are happening now, under our watch. The prose is effortless and the story is so powerful, it made me wish I'd been alive at the time so I could help fight.”
Arthur Rosen, a young man living in Brooklyn in 1936,
kills a Nazi brownshirt in self-defense and must flee the country.
The Spanish Republic is attacked by an army led by Francisco Franco, whose goal is to establish a right-wing dictatorship, supported by the aristocracy and the Catholic Church, and arms and troops from Germany and Italy. 40,000 young men and women from around the world drop their lives and travel to Spain to stop the spread of fascism.
Arthur joins them and becomes a soldier in the International Brigades. He encounters a beautiful Spanish woman assigned to photograph the war and its atrocities, and a young woman from a small village, a victim of those atrocities, now in Madrid to join the fight.
The first novel in English fully set in the Spanish Civil War since Hemingway’s For Whom The Bell Tolls, Pandaemonium Moon richly recounts Franco’s siege of Madrid, where the lives of these three individuals fatefully come together, and face the long, bitter battles that ensue.
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