Historical Fiction
Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing
Alec Driver, a WWII veteran earns an advanced degree in music from a
prestigious university. At age thirty-seven with glowing recommendations in
hand, he secures the post of choir teacher at a small town high school on
Florida’s west coast. Soon thereafter he falls in love with Tracy Ashbury a
bright, talented and attractive student in his choir. Community outrage
aroused by his courtship demands his dismissal prompting certain influential
citizens to affect Alec’s rescue. National recognition for the choir’s
unprecedented performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony vindicates Alec’s
supporters or so it seems…
About the Author
Dale O. Cloninger is Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the School of
Business at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. The Ninth Passage is a
fictional account of a series of actual events that transpired from
1953-1962 in his native Clearwater, Florida. The Ninth Passage is his third
book and second novel.
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