The Firing of Stephen Ledberg

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By Allan Lenzner ’60

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(The Troy Book Makers) This book follows the journeys of Stephen Ledberg, who goes all the way to Africa in search of the biological parents his family refuses to tell him anything about. Along the way he meets a cast of characters that includes a one-armed caddy, an alcoholic schoolteacher, and a young Indian woman with whom he falls in love. This is Lenzner’s first published novel.

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