| TOISHAN Book One: IN WORDS AND DREAMS AND SONG Author: John E. Cashwell Paperback: 124 Pages List Price: $19.98* (For a signed, autographed copy with a message from the author. *Residents of North Carolina add $1.35 sales tax) Availability: In Stock Ships From/Sold by Literary Masters, Inc. |
Synopsis:
(An Epic Poem of 6 books, 210 pages, and 33,616 words)
Spanning more than 1,300 years and over forty-seven
generations, Toishan bookmarks at key points in time
the contributions of the Chinese men and women who
built the American railroads.
Launching a delicate 5th Century junk from Toi Shan
Province in CE 496, the Most High Buddhist Priest Hoei-
shin Ti initiates an incredible journey up the west coast
of Japan, north past the Korean peninsula, along the
Aleutian Islands, southeast toward Alaska, down the
west coast of North America, to present-day California.
In 1865 some 1,369 years later his descendants and
those of Sir Quentin Gnarr Roberts, an Irish immigrant,
are conjoined in the most eloquent material work of both
races—the construction of America's Transcontinental
Railroad.
In six spellbinding works, Cashwell chronicles the return
of the Chinese to California, and the arrival of the Irish,
in an imaginative but highly believable alternate history
of the discovery and ultimate assimilation of the
American West.
(An Epic Poem of 6 books, 210 pages, and 33,616 words)
Spanning more than 1,300 years and over forty-seven
generations, Toishan bookmarks at key points in time
the contributions of the Chinese men and women who
built the American railroads.
Launching a delicate 5th Century junk from Toi Shan
Province in CE 496, the Most High Buddhist Priest Hoei-
shin Ti initiates an incredible journey up the west coast
of Japan, north past the Korean peninsula, along the
Aleutian Islands, southeast toward Alaska, down the
west coast of North America, to present-day California.
In 1865 some 1,369 years later his descendants and
those of Sir Quentin Gnarr Roberts, an Irish immigrant,
are conjoined in the most eloquent material work of both
races—the construction of America's Transcontinental
Railroad.
In six spellbinding works, Cashwell chronicles the return
of the Chinese to California, and the arrival of the Irish,
in an imaginative but highly believable alternate history
of the discovery and ultimate assimilation of the
American West.
About The Author:
John E. Cashwell is the author of four highly
imaginative novels, twelve short stories,
twenty short poems, and the six-book epic
poem Toishan. He has over forty years
advertising, marketing and copy writing
experience, most notably responsible for
helping to launch the Panasonic brand to
consumers in North America. A former US
Marine and a graduate of Duke University,
John is a resident of the Albemarle
Plantation in Hertford, North Carolina,
where he enjoys writing, fitness training and
golf with his wife of forty-four years, Ann M.
Cashwell.
John E. Cashwell is the author of four highly
imaginative novels, twelve short stories,
twenty short poems, and the six-book epic
poem Toishan. He has over forty years
advertising, marketing and copy writing
experience, most notably responsible for
helping to launch the Panasonic brand to
consumers in North America. A former US
Marine and a graduate of Duke University,
John is a resident of the Albemarle
Plantation in Hertford, North Carolina,
where he enjoys writing, fitness training and
golf with his wife of forty-four years, Ann M.
Cashwell.
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The Review Store:
Praise for Toishan: Book One: "In
Words and Dreams and Song."
"Reading each page of Toishan is like gazing through a gracefully
arched window into the mists of a distant past; John Cashwell's
flowing words masterfully paint such detailed, vivid portraits of
the men and women in his unique story, rendering them three-
dimensional, making them truly unforgettable, and leaving you
wanting more!" *****--Leann Marshall
"I love Bibi Anbee. I want her to be real. But she is. She is. On
every page of Toishan. A haunting, thrilling, paralyzing read. I
could not put it down. Done in a day or less, but with you for all
time. Yahoo! For poets like this. " *****---Malcomb W.
Grossenheider
It is a bold writer who dares to tackle head-on the subject of
what it means to be human. Something that John E. Cashwell
does with tenderness and inexhaustible curiosity. A well-done
read!" ****---Richard E. Sigphen
"Cashwell's poem is a surprising, moving, and life-affirming
embrace of the human condition. Herein lies victories, failures,
potencies and frailties---all becoming thrilling, liberating and
quite often paralyzing rather than dour portents of life . . . or
death. I'll read it again and again." *****---Brice W. Rynolds.
"Thia is an amazing read. Setting the stage for five more that I'll
anticipate with great need. It's a long way from Fusang to
Promontory Summit. I can't wait to take the ride. The character
development alone will represent a first-class ticket. Roll on
Toishan!" *****---William B. Graves
"A friend recently asked me what my new book was about.
First, I told him, it is not a book; it is a poem. A poem of epic
proportions and epic conditions when one considers how wicked
and then again equally spiritual it is. Like life, this poem is and
always shall be simple, tragic and hauntingly beautiful . . ."
comment --- John E. Cashwell
"A master of character development, John E.
Cashwell brings to life his players in simple,
eerie impressions. A surprising read. Worth
the time if you are a history buff, a poet or a
true romantic." ***** --- Dwight A. Hugues
"A new Bard has arisen in North Carolina.
One refreshing, breathtaking, fast-paced poet
who lives in every page. I tried it. I liked it.
You will too!"***** --- Gaston B. Gundlach
"Cashwell has accomplished something here
so pure and real its implications border on
the devout. Mixing faith, love and passion in
an incomparable and zesty bouillabaisse."
**** --- J. Wolley Russell
Whether it be "Java Man," Peking Man or
"Lucy (... In the Sky with Diamonds") there
were the ancient australopithecines, later
Homo ergaster and then Homo erectus
(comparably modern, upright beings
classified as hominids) who left the Savanna
and spread out across most of the globe a few
million years or so ago to possibly as recent
as twenty thousand years. Nothing fuzzy
about that. A great and thoroughly well
researched read.**** --- T. A. Siebenheller
Cashwell brings to life his players in simple,
eerie impressions. A surprising read. Worth
the time if you are a history buff, a poet or a
true romantic." ***** --- Dwight A. Hugues
"A new Bard has arisen in North Carolina.
One refreshing, breathtaking, fast-paced poet
who lives in every page. I tried it. I liked it.
You will too!"***** --- Gaston B. Gundlach
"Cashwell has accomplished something here
so pure and real its implications border on
the devout. Mixing faith, love and passion in
an incomparable and zesty bouillabaisse."
**** --- J. Wolley Russell
Whether it be "Java Man," Peking Man or
"Lucy (... In the Sky with Diamonds") there
were the ancient australopithecines, later
Homo ergaster and then Homo erectus
(comparably modern, upright beings
classified as hominids) who left the Savanna
and spread out across most of the globe a few
million years or so ago to possibly as recent
as twenty thousand years. Nothing fuzzy
about that. A great and thoroughly well
researched read.**** --- T. A. Siebenheller
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