His Life Has Been a Tragicomic Struggle

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• Source: Xlibris
• On 6:13 pm EDT, Thursday August 27, 2009

NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This exciting new book from Xlibris tells the story of Harry Blade, a man who, having just endured most of an enforced five-year all-expenses-paid vacation, can't wait until it's over. And tells why.

 "Rocks, nearly as one can tell, are sexually indifferent."

So begins the rollercoaster, sometimes painful, saga of Harry Lauder Blade Jr., orphaned at four, consigned to the care of his starchy and obscenely wealthy Aunt Harriet, in one or another of her five permanent abodes, and where his dearest friends become a dog taller than he and an understanding and protective butler.

Blade's journey through Collegiate School, Hotchkiss, a year-and-a-half at Harvard, followed by the disgrace of cutting out to assume a career as a busboy in Greenwich Village, is told as a memoir from a small coastal North Atlantic town, which he has chosen as the place where he will wind up his own tale among an unusual cast of friends and enemies. It is here that he begins to care, and it is here that the fun begins.

About the Author

Ronald Neil Campbell is not by trade a writer, although for most of his adult life he has been surrounded by the real thing. He has, however, produced articles because of his ordained craft, which has been as Art Director and designer of variant material for print -- mostly magazines and annual reports for companies such as Time Inc. and Merrill Lynch. Most prominent elements of his magazine career include thirty years at Fortune Magazine (nine as Art Director featuring more than two hundred covers, two complete redesigns, and five-and-a-half Managing Editors); Harvard Magazine (total redesign and ten years on the masthead as design consultant); and Harvard Business Review (total redesign). After two-and-a-half years in the WWII U.S. Navy he earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and in 1952 joined Fortune.

               The Bad Pipsisewah * by Ronald Neil Campbell
                                A Memoir
                      Publication Date: May 15, 2008
        Trade Paperback; $17.84; 198 pages; ISBN 978-1-4257-6043-4
        Trade Hardback; $27.89; 198 pages; ISBN 978-1-4257-6064-9

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