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Proles
Simon Bussbaum’s a film junkie without a cause, a spiritual drifter looking for light in the days of Watergate—days of social tensions, cultural turmoil, and criminal conspiracies in high places. His burning bush appears in the form of City of Emeralds, a McCarthy-era, feminist-tinged reenactment of a triumphant New Mexico miners’ strike.
Inspired, he flees Queens for the sulfur haze of a copper smelter, eager to join Naldo Galvan, the real-life strike leader and star of the film, on American workers’ march to the promised land of liberty and justice for all.
But not every burning bush, it turns out, is a message from God.
Author: Barry Bergman
Paperback: 208 pages
ISBN-13: 9781947175754
Barry Bergman is a New York City refugee, long ago replanted in the SF Bay Area. He’s been a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer/editor—with scores of bylined stories in Sierra, California, and Mother Jones magazines—and a communications pro at UC Berkeley and assorted nonprofits. Before earning his journalism degree at San Francisco State University he worked in a variety of industrial settings, including two years in an Arizona copper smelter, an experience he would reimagine, eventually, as the fictional background for Proles, his first completed novel.
He’s currently working on a new novel, Mr. Pitiful, in a house he shares with his journalist wife and two cats, Cosmo and Mookie, in Berkeley, California.