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The Ninth Passage
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Alec Driver, a WWII veteran, uses the GI bill to earn 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 after assuming his duties he falls in love with Tracy Ashbury a bright, talented and attractive student in his choir. Community outrage aroused by his courtship culminates in a resentful and belligerent student goading Alec into striking him. Influential citizens rescue Alec from potential dismissal. His subsequent marriage to Tracy and national recognition for the choir’s mastery vindicates Alec’s supporters or so it seems . . . -
The Ninth Passage
$2.99In the early 1950’s a thirty-seven-year-old WWII vet becomes the high school music teacher in a small Florida coastal town where he initiates a romantic relationship with a seventeen-year-old student in his choir. Inspired by actual events the story traces their tragic relationship over a nine-year period.
Set in a small coastal town during the 1950’s when the State stood poised on the verge of rapid development that transformed sleepy fishing and citrus villages into developers’ fantasies faster than the community mores and attitudes could keep pace. Home for a class reunion, Dean Collins recounts to his new younger bride the story of Alec Driver, a WWII veteran Ivy League graduate and Connecticut Yankee who arrived fifty years earlier as part of an advance wave of Northeastern and Midwestern migrants that would soon engulf the Florida peninsula.