The Golden Eagle Saloon
E ddy Parker returns from college to find his family shattered by his parents’ sudden divorce. He escapes to the family beach house and takes a summer job at a restaurant in a nearby amusement park. There, he enjoys a new freedom accentuated by the profound social changes of the sixties. He and friends revel in their freedom but learn that their hedonistic choices can be more dangerous to them than the Vietnam War, a developing threat that looms over them like a storm cloud on the horizon.
Writer’s Bio
A lain Gunn has been writing since high school, and has written in a wide diversity of styles. During high school, he published many articles as a sports stringer for two suburban Cleveland newspapers and was social editor of his high school yearbook.
During college, he wrote for the Yale Daily New and the Yale News in Review. As a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon, his writing became more academic, as he authored or co-authored forty-three scientific articles and several textbook chapters.
