The Giorgioni Legends

Just look what is coming your way!!!


Very soon my novel "The Giorgioni Legend" will be available to you/ The "Legend"" is a large novel with large scenes and dynamic characters. The genre is that of adventure, action, romance and history. Now, now folks,, this is certainly not a history book but no story covering 90 years in Texas can be created without involving the milieu of history about the action. For example: Did you know that trains pushed the cattle drives to Dodge into the past?  Did you know that the 1901 oil gusher in Beaumont, Texas double the supply of oil for the USA. as the output of the Standard Oil Company was watched barrel for barrel by oil and natural gas discovered in Texas in 1901. Nope, folks you cannot ignore these seminal moments of history.


The story begins in 1852 when Paulus Octavious Giorgiona and his wife Corinthia Dorina cross the Atlantic Ocean and then go west on the Erie Canal and then to Chicago, IL via the he steamship Loretta  . From there it's west across Illinois to the Great Mississippi River often called the "Big Muddy." The two Sicilians end up at New Orleans, Louisiana where they take a ship east across the Gulf of Mexico then to the Bay of Galveston after which they go 250 miles northeast to San Antonio where Paulus becomes famous in this Catholic diocese for his art in wood working.


The second generation is that of the twins Carlos and Carla. While Carlos moves to Houston to become rich in the furniture business, his twin sister Carla disappears into the island of Galveston her life history there quite nebulous.


Siegfried Giorgioni, becomes rich by building A General Store and Oil Drilling Annex in the exact geographical center of Texas. While Zephyr is the name on the map, the author has taken the liberty of naming it "Tempest." Siegfried buys a 3000 acre ranch under which there is a lake of oil plus other money-making areas such as cotton and a Texas size area of pecans.


Michael Fernando Giorgioni is of the fourth generation and a superb writer who wins the highly regard Pulitzer Prize for a book about his family. Also, Mike serves in the Great War in France. The reader will slather at the mind as Mike vacations in Paris after trench war against the Germans. Nowhere, I promise you, will you find such  tender and entrancing scenes as that found in the final battle of the Great War at Belleau Woods, France. 


After Mike returns home in honor, he and Anita Marie Austin make a tour of the State of Texas to gain the right for women to vote.


After many years of of delay, Mike now 33 years of age joins the Creative Writing class at Southern Methodist University.  This chapter has all the pain and delight which writers endure as writer workshop attendees. Meanwhile, in the second year of their marriage, is born Clyde Amos Giorgioni  ,and outstanding athlete and with a mind of Mensa capabilities. As Clyde is born in May of 1922, he is cannon fodder for WW11 when he serves as a carrier pilot on the Yorktown in the memorable and remarkable sea battles of the Coral Sea and that of the Midway Atoll.


What? No villain? Oh yes, yes, yes. Erik Beezlethor is the supreme villain. Not only is he an uneducated genius but a bigot with a grand purpose. He is chief of the NRG (Night Riders of God) .
Erik aka "Erik the Red" is an unusual and remarkable villain in that he exploits the Constitutions First Amendment of free speech by conducting bigotry marches against Jews, Negroes, Chines, Japanese , women and Catholics, his signs maligning all but Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPS). Erik is so interesting a villain that one must read the book to understand the clear and present danger of a villain who employs the First Amendment so that he hangs the citizens of Texas with their own noose.


The ending chapters are most extraordinary to such a degree that I have read then time and time again just for the fun of it.


If you are a Texan, you will thievery or mayhem for the singular opportunity of  reading this book. Even if you hate Texas (which very few do) they will find that th story is so delightful that they will  forthwith make plans to visit Texas.
Although I would enjoy making a pot full of money from the sale of this magnificent novel, I am quite satisfied that I have been allowed four years of life to do the research and writing of this book. Of course, the hours of research have been monumental through which I have become an expert on many subjects about which I knew very little. This in itself is payment enough for the author.
Look for my other books on Amazon. They too are worth your time. Also, I a have almost complete an epilogue off less than 80 pages of "The Giorgioni Legend." I shall leave a blog when this is finished.
W. Wayne Sands, MD and, a retired Radiologist and Psychiatrist.