J. Peter Bergman’s book “Small Ironies,” which captures the truths of life’s desires and failures, is now available for purchase
J. Peter Bergman has published Small Ironies with Author Reputation Press, the ideal book for readers looking for a resonating message of life’s reflections that are frequently overlooked due to subtlety but are absolutely essential because they lead to the meaning and purpose of life.
Ironies are so lovely. The battle between expectations and outcomes happens again and again. In life, things happen. Most often than not, the outcome is the opposite of what someone wanted or hoped for. At times, what is heard and seen is not the whole truth. The outside appears different from the real condition of the inside. Ironies may be dressed in beautiful words to cover up the painful truth and the bleeding scars.
Max Draper is the younger child in a regular American family growing up in New York City. He is the protagonist of Small Ironies. His life is as simple as it can be, and his family appears to be as normal as imaginable. However, there is one caveat. Prostitution has been in his family for centuries. He falls in love with a childhood friend, a girl named Freddy, who is raised in an environment that fosters honesty. That love and everything it entails, hides his actual nature, his homosexuality, and living with that paradox lead him down a path he could never have imagined. Max discovers the truth about his friends’ secrets, desires, and faults, putting a world of tolerance and understanding to the test.
The author, J. Peter Bergman, who was born in 1946 in New York City, has lived through the events depicted in this work and knows many of the people who inspired the characters. Since 1961, he has been a published author in poetry, journalism, fiction, and theater. He has had over a dozen plays commissioned and staged as an actor and director. Peter Bergman is a filmmaker who lives in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires. He is a founding member of the Berkshire Stonewall Community Coalition and contributes to a variety of publications, including Edge.com and his own website, BerkshireBrightFocus.com.
The book is now available for purchase via our bookstore, https://authorreputationpress.com/products/small-ironies.