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Robert McKenzie

A grand epic saga by Robert McKenzie, The Chair series spans centuries, touching the lives of 22 generations of related mothers and daughters, their stories witnessed by a simple pine chair. Resolute, strong, loving, and fiercely protective, these women must strive to pass their values to new generations in a world of racism and sexism, politics, scandal, fashion—even the rise and dominance of baseball. They live in privilege and poverty, with faith and despair, relishing every moment of love even as they suffer abiding grief.

In Volume III: Seven, Eight, & Nine, the chair flashes back to pre-Civil War America, featuring a woman from the second Mayflower, her daughter the black-market Irish lace importer, and a Canadian World War I fighter pilot. A blend of history and philosophy told through satire and parody, the story of The Chair could be found in some old trunk in any dusty old attic, but McKenzie breathes it alive with riveting tales that span the real and the imagined.

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The Chair

The Chair: Volume III: Seven, Eight, & Nine

The stories of 23 generations of American women whose first names begin with L continue the final installment of The Chair Pentalogy. They include a Revolutionary War cannoneer, a sidewalk clown, a bottled-water magnate, a frontier woman, a choreographer, a Union army uniform designer, a lover of umbrellas, a wealthy horseracing gambler, and an immortal time-traveler. The Armistice is signed, a French sub goes lost in the South Pacific, a gun battle erupts on the Mexican border, Scottish explorers brave a Canadian blizzard, and Christmas breaks out at a Beverly Hills shindig. Robert McKenzie’s unique stream-of-consciousness tour de force captivates with the tales of these remarkable women who have one simple chair passing through all their lives. The Chair: Volume V completes this epic tale, the kind found in an old trunk between the real and imagined.

The Chair: Volume V: Mintaka, Alnilam, & Alnitak

The Chair - The book series

The Chair - The book series

The Chair books in order

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