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Bart Yates

Biography

Bart Yates

Bart Yates (aka Noah Bly) is the award-winning author of seven novels, including LEAVE MYSELF BEHIND, THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE AND LOSS, THE THIRD HILL NORTH OF TOWN, and THE VERY LONG, VERY STRANGE LIFE OF ISAAC DAHL. He is also a professional musician, and plays clarinet, saxophone and bass guitar.

Bart Yates

Books by Bart Yates

by Bart Yates - Fiction

At the age of 96, Isaac Dahl sits down to write his memoir. For Isaac, an accomplished journalist and historian, finding the right words is never a problem. But this book will be different from anything he has written before. Focusing on 12 different days, each encapsulated in a chapter, Isaac hopes to distill the very essence of his life. There are days that begin like any other, only to morph through twists of fate. An avalanche strikes Bingham, Utah, and eight-year-old Isaac and his twin sister, Agnes, survive when they are trapped in an upside-down bathtub. Other days stand apart --- including a day in 1942, when Isaac, stationed on the USS Houston in the Java Sea as a rookie correspondent, confronts the full horror of war. And there are days spent simply, with his lifelong friend, Bo, or with Danny, the younger man whose love transforms Isaac’s later years.