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Dan Carroll is a world traveler, having adventured from China, to Haiti, to Iran. He has visited countries in Europe and Eastern Europe; Columbia, Mexico, and countries of the Caribbean, as well as the Spanish-speaking countries of Central America. His humanitarian experiences in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic ultimately led to the writing of his debut novel, SLUM.

Dan's teaching career includes Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, 1969-1971, Queens College, New York; and Philosophy Professor at Tehran International School, Iran, 1972-1973, where he taught Theory of Knowledge as an appointee of the International Baccalaureate Program of Switzerland.

Upon returning to the United States, he took over the family business as president of Photonews Long Island Corp. from 1974 to 1996. During this time he also embarked upon a humanitarian career through Gift of Life, Children International, and the Rotary Club.

Dan has two children and five grandchildren. He currently lives on Long Island with his wife, Libby, whom he met in the Philippines, and married there in 2003.

favourite books

For Whom the Bell Tolls, and just about anything else Hemingway wrote;
Thomas Hardy's major novels;
Jane Austin, all six novels;
Voltaire, Candide;
Goswami, Self-Aware Universe;
Homer's Odyssey

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Slum

Dan Carroll

An intoxicating love story?
A tale of hope for a dying child?
A philosophical drama on morality?
Reviewers say this story has it all.


Slum is not the typical boy-meets-girl love story. Their situation is impossible. He is the sophisticated president of an organization in New York. She is a former stripper, living in a slum on a Caribbean island. Besides, he already has a girlfriend; he is not looking for someone else― especially not a married ex-stripper from a far-away slum!

But, as fate would have it, a six-year-old child is the force which brings them together into a rebellious and passionate entanglement which transforms both of them into a deep passion for life itself.

"Enticingly entertaining," says Foreword Clarion Reviews.

"Ventures far from the traditional romance novel," says Kirkus Reviews.

"A challenge to readers to look at their own cultural assumptions," says The US Review of Books





 

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Camac wrote 6 days ago

Hi Dan, I see from your home page that you're a Hemingway fan - so....

sheila cooper wrote 23 days ago

Hello Ive been offline for ages as I started a new job and also move....

tojo wrote 26 days ago

Hello Dan, nice to hear from you, things seem a bit slow on here, got....

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I wrote 97 days ago

Whew! I shouldn't have started reading this, as time constraints made me quit after the first chapter, but what a beginning-- what a metaphore in the first two sentences! The pavement a scab covering a wound-- and we know the story is about digging down. Fantastic. This book is one to keep an eye on... view book

I wrote 97 days ago

Hello, David- Your book coasts along with beautiful writing, with a stance fraught with understatement: "Dad's largely liquid celebrations..." "...the assurance didn't shake the sneaky suspicion that a hefty nudge..." "Shattered the modicum of credibility," and so on. The fine writing itself woul... view book

I wrote 97 days ago

Hello, Kim- In chapter one the reader gets quickly drawn in- well done! Fear is the culprit which gets the reader's attention- Nicky awakens with a start. Something, or someone, is standing there. A real girl? The questions lingers in the reader's mind until we find out it's an apparition. But wh... view book

I wrote 100 days ago

Well, Phil, as I said in my last comments, you made me crave more. And so I read two more chapters of this tantalizing memoir, a time when Phil lost a lot (Tubby) and learned a lot (Helen); a time he brought Helen home to mum with fear and trembling, a time his mum referred to his beloved as, "that ... view book

I wrote 106 days ago

Hello, Phil- You posted just enough to make me crave for more... much more. You left this reader tantalized by thoughts of how Philip's love affair with Helen might unfold. He was just seventeen and had been pining after her since he was fifteen and finally her lips brushed against his, then full... view book

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