COMING SOON
Medicine Man: Book 2
Book Number 2 of the Waiting for Winter Pentology.
The fall from grace and his beginning struggle to confront and to redefine himself, to learn how and why he destroyed his career and everyone around him about whom he cared.
WAITING FOR WINTER - IN PROGRESS
A pentology, like a trilogy, or a quintet, like a brass quintet, with five distinct voices…. five books… The Five Books of Chaim Goldberg… a biblical life, from the beginning to almost the end… of mythic proportions. Chaim Goldberg is “us.”
KALEIDOSCOPE
(1963-64) was the first: late adolescence, coming of age. This book introduced Chaim Goldberg, a troubled kid with a family whose images were distorted as those one sees in carnival mirrors in the fun house…but none of what happens to Chaim Goldberg is fun. He discovered what he thinks is love but is deceived. (published Sunstone Press, June 2013)
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MEDICINE MAN: BOOK 3
COMING SOON
(1978-80) the second book, in development now, takes off when he is a doctor, about a decade into his medical practice. He has succeeded admirably, has professional esteem, financial well-being, a family. Demons torment him… Because of his inner torments and self-doubts, but mostly, his lack of inner direction and commitment, misguided, he destroys all of it by using cocaine. He transgressed medicine’s keystone precept in trying to heal himself and learns a lesson. He purloined cocaine from his medical practice by misusing his professional authorities. His anorgasmic, anhedonic wife is of no help as he pleads guilty to two federal felonies and, what should have been his fulfilling life, vanishes like a sneeze on cocaine powder. He loses his professional life, his community stature, his family, his self-esteem; losing everything he has built. Bereft, he experiences an apocryphyal discovery: he is empty as a person. He is guilty of the worst failure for a human being: amorality. Medicine Man portrays this fall from grace and his beginning struggle to confront and to redefine himself, to learn how and why he destroyed his career and everyone around him about whom he cared.
GYROSCOPE: BOOK 4
IN DEVELOPMENT
Examines his late middle restorative years:approximately 1989-1992, when he leaves medicine and goes to law school. He errs by marrying a Lady Macbethian slut, the wrong woman, a woman who meets his pleasures but who is deeply flawed. At the time when he is re-entering the medical world, she steals from their marriage, betrays him by infidelity with the lawyer from his first
marriage, and worse. He resolves the conundrum by seeking his best option: law school. He knows, however, that there is a very high likelihood that he will never be admitted to law practice. Out of all of this, his new direction emerges.
INTRASCOPE: BOOK 5
IN DEVELOPMENT
Here he return to the soils of his childhood; (birth-high school- discovery of genius). This book probes his DNA… what made him…from birth, which you have glimpsed at…It is a story of terrible psychological and sexual abuses by parents and his victimization by those around him… from whom the parents did not protect. He meets his inner loam, never quits, and emerges anew.
MICROSCOPE: CONSAGUINITY
IN DEVELOPMENT
2003-2008: After wandering twenty years in a psychological desert, paradoxically, he marries Kathy, a bitter, morose, guileless nurse anesthetist… who hates men and seeks to destroy what he has achieved. She is yet another catastrophic disaster. Will he never learn? This wife is murderous, ruthless, cruel. The marriage, as with his others, disintegrates. In this novel, Chaim Goldberg reflects upon the entirety of his life. He researches his origins, his beginnings from Poland as early as 1905, the year his father Artie was born. He confronts his existential finalities and confronts a harsh truth. Artie was not his biologic father but Charles Ackerman. His mother had an affair which produced both he and his sister, Ruthie. He exhumes his father’s body, Artie, to discovery these truths reveal in his mother’s death bed confession.
Microscope delves into his consanguinity with the Jewish people, with hs family, and himself. Waiting for Winter, the pentology, end on a hopeful note. He rediscovers music, returns to his trumpet and his Jewishness, his heritage. He finds his roots that go back to Aaron, Moses’ first born, that he is a Priest of the ancient Kohanim. In Israel, then, he discovers humility, patience, compassion, empathy. He dedicates himself to living a meaningful and caring life and makes surprising contributions. Most of all the reader learns what drove him so and why did he have to make so many mistakes? Yet, when it seems as if Chaim Goldberg is sentenced to a life alone, to dying alone, he meets his final love, a compassionate and competent woman, his soulmate, at last, a woman who “gets him.”