That One Cigarette
Published on 24. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
370 pages
978-1-941861-44-8 (ISBN)
Description
A story of ordinary people making extraordinary ripples in the ocean of life.
That One Cigarette is a counterfactual history novel following four families from November of 1963 to January of 2009. In November ’63, Ed Callahan is an assistant manager at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. His promise to his wife to quit smoking as soon as he finishes the pack in his pocket ends up changing the course of events on November 22. The fallout of this action alters the lives of the Scott family in Rochester, New York, the Kaufman/Goldman family in Los Angeles and the extended Kashat family in Baghdad, Iraq.
It’s not until the final chapters that all of these lives intersect, but along the way, That One Cigarette explores questions of fate, love, loyalty and the ability of each of us to make defining contributions to our world by simply being present in our own lives.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
445 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-941861-44-8 (9781941861448)
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Stu Krieger is a professor of screen and television writing in the University of California, Riverside's Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production. From 2001 to 2020 he also taught Producing the Screenplay at USC's Peter Stark Producing Program.Krieger wrote the animated classic The Land Before Time for producers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and he co-wrote the Emmy-winning mini-series A Year in the Life. He also wrote or co-wrote ten original movies for the Disney Channel, including Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century and its two sequels, Tru Confessions, Smart House, Phantom of the Megaplex, the Humanitas-nominated Going to the Mat, and Cow Belles. In April 2015, Professor Krieger delivered a well-received TEDx Talk entitled "Choose Joy." His first novel, That One Cigarette, was published in November 2017.