{"title":"Richard Shain Cohen","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the captivating works of Richard Shain Cohen. 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Calm and stormy seas are emblematic of the characters, their influence upon one another, and the conflicts and love expressed among the four main characters - Brigit, Deirdre, Gregory and Etienne Moreau, a man who searches out art treasures to sell to museums. Etienne takes as his partner Deirdre, a dark haired, vivacious beauty he meets during World War I when she was an OS member and he was head of a Maquis group. Brigit, an extremely attractive red-haired woman and nurse cares for Gregory wounded during the war and who becomes a well-known medical researcher. Gregory and Brigit have fallen in love and plan their marriage. Deirdre then sets her sight on Gregory, ignoring her lover and partner Etienne, and a conflict occurs between the two women. In the end, the effects of love triumph in contrast to vainness that damages self and others as the seas of fear and love engulf all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRichard Shain Cohen of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, is originally from Boston. He retired from the University of Maine at Presque Isle after serving as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of English. He holds B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. \u003cbr\u003eHe served as editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eHusson Review\u003c\/i\u003e and was principal participant in a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for -Images of Aroostook- that was exhibited throughout the State of Maine. \u003cbr\u003eHis own publications include: \u003ci\u003eHealing After Dark: Pioneering Compassionate Medicine at the Boston Evening Clinic\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Longfellow: Man in the Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003eOnly God Can Make a Tree\u003c\/i\u003e, poetry from himself and his brother, Alfred Robert Cohen; and the novels \u003ci\u003eOur Seas of Fear and Love, Monday: End of the Week, Be Still, My Soul\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePetal on a Black Bough\u003c\/i\u003e. 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The story unfolds as a Jewish immigrant family settles in the busy and growing city of Portland, Maine, in 1840. Here they find many hardships as they confront anti-Semitism, nativism, and adjustment difficulties as they gain acceptance as peddlers and shopkeepers. At that time Jewish men becoming physicians and lawyers parallels the women who faced the same derision in order to become doctors and lawyers as well. \u003cbr\u003eThe novel thus tells of Jewish marriages and intermarriages that continue to build the family tree. These characters are strong self-assured women and men who reject family dismay as they find love, joy and gain acceptance in their struggle for dignity and honor not only in their chosen professions but within the various families. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise received: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Richard Shain Cohen's fifth novel, \u003ci\u003eEcstasy and Distress\u003c\/i\u003e, stops at all the junctures in this long and winding road detailing the arrival of a European Jewish family, the Blumenthals, in Portland, Maine, in 1840. He artfully details the progression of six generations of its members through the ensuing decades culminating in the Second World War. We come to learn that in spite of a common denominator of trials and tribulations each family's narrative is trenchantly unique. What was it like to be Jewish in pre-Civil War America? Was upward mobility possible for such as these? Was the American dream a fabrication, or were there new pathways to social and economic mobility in this rugged and changeable milieu? The ever-present specter of discrimination had to be faced, dealt with, and history had to be encountered on its own terms in the swift-moving currents of a family's long and courageous journey. The author does a superb job of bringing the Blumenthals into modern focus as a living, breathing, loving, caring entity and a strong and determined family capable of plotting its course and absorbing life's blows while redefining its terms for those to follow.\" \u003cbr\u003e- James T. Kenny, PhD, Author \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRichard Shain Cohen of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, is originally from Boston. He retired from the University of Maine at Presque Isle after serving as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of English. He holds B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. 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