Love Among The Greeks by Bob Strother
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: April 2006
- Publisher: Publish America
- Format: Paperback, 191pp
- ISBN-13: 9781424100347
- ISBN: 1424100348
Synopsis
What is love anyway? Webster’s defines it as an affection based on personal ties or sexual desires. In the early 1960s—before the era of "free love"—there was still plenty to be had, if you were willing to pay the price. Johnny Chase enters college in 1962, joins the Kappa Sigma fraternity, and replaces his high school girlfriend with sorority beauty Randy Roberts. Together they burn like a rocket through a torrid six-month love affair. Complicating matters are Kappa Sigma rush girl Rivers Lloyd—Johnny’s friend, social advisor and maybe something else—and his co-worker Millie, whose unusual mix of practical advice and hands-on therapy provide a much-needed distraction. So, is it love, or just another Greek tragedy? Follow the sometimes amoral but always romantic Johnny Chase on an odyssey of self-discovery through the hallowed halls of Greek society.
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January 06, 2007: With a style that?s smooth, sleek and Southern, Bob Strother entices us to travel back in time to a world as familiar to the fraternity/sorority alumnus as it is foreign to the uninitiated. Love Among the Greeks carries us through the first stormy college years of Johnny Chase - the ups and downs of love, friendship, and fraternity, and the painful process of growing into adulthood. It is a pleasure to immerse ourselves in his velvety writing. Bob has created a strong, interesting set of characters and he brings them to life with a pleasantly fluent stroke of his pen. Johnny Chase says, ?Shoulder to shoulder with the other Kappa Sigma brothers and pledges, I experienced the warm glow of belonging.? Bob has made it possible for all of us to experience that warm glow of belonging by sharing with us his Love Among the Greeks.
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May 15, 2006: Although my college experience was part of a different generation, reading this book refreshed my memories of times and people I had forgotten. As a result of strong character development, realistic dialoge, and detailed descriptions, Strother inspires the reader to call upon his own experiences to identify with the characters in Love Among The Greeks. In my imagination, I couldn't help from putting myself amoung Chase and his friends...the moments seem authentic and familiar. In the setting, a college in Tennessee-just prior to the Vietnam war and the impending cultural uprising, one can sense in the book that along with Johnny Chase's right of passage, that his entire generation is about to leave a certain innocence behind. Being from a generation born from Chase's and living in the aftermath of Vietnam, I enjoyed the stories that my father may have lived that were so parallel to my own.
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