Title: The Story of Pooville
Author: Fenton Roades
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 978-1532087844
Pages: 158
Genre: Humorous Fiction/Historical Fiction
Synopsis
George Poo is an ordinary science teacher living in England during the late 1800s. At this time George’s father and uncle dominated the family’s horse-manure-hauling business, where George worked part time as he was growing up. George marries and begins creating little Poos, but because of political issues in England and searching for new opportunities George and family decide to immigrate to America. In 1909 George and family arrives in New York. He has no idea what awaits him. All he knows is that America is a place of great opportunity where people are free to express themselves the way they want. His journey leads him to Philadelphia where he secures work and eventually founds a fertilizer company, George and his family must overcome many obstacles. While George transforms into one of the richest men in America, he founds a town in southern Maryland and creates a unique society in the process. But will George ever achieve his dream of making America a better place? In this amusing novella with an important message, the Poo family journey spans a period of over 150 years. During that time the story presents the very best and the very worse that our nation has to offer. An amusing but serious story of struggle, fame, success, greed, corruption, failure and deception with the ultimate goal of changing the world, but will it be for the better?
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