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Arc Of Descent

Martin Agius

In the midst of the depression, Harry Azzopardi and Cady Stubbs head out to Nevada with their families, hoping to find jobs building a dam on the Colorado River.

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    Reclusive writer born in London, sometimes sighted in San Francisco gazing longingly at the doors of the old Plush Room on Sutter Street. My latest serialized novel is Arc Of Descent, a California saga spanning the 1930s to the 1990s.

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