Ted, a new resident in the apartment building, opens his door to find her standing there-wearing a bathrobe. It's the beginning of his relationship with Zip and the other tenants that will change all of their lives forever.
Ted meets Eddie, the super, or is he the owner; Gloria, a shy young woman with an eye problem; Sam, Gloria's over-protective, lesbian sister; Jerry, a gay black man and Zip's best friend; Vera, an artist with a dark vision haunting her; and Bill, a dapper gentleman with a secret. Ted is drawn to the vivacious Zip, but it's the courageous Gloria who captures his heart.
As time passes, the residents grow closer and closer, their individual loneliness and isolation lessening as the group coalesces. When a death surprises the small community, Ted discovers the reality behind his neighbors' lives and learns about the power of compassion and kindness and its limits-lessons that would last a lifetime.
Set in the 1960s, No View offers a portrait of a revolutionary time in American culture-including the changing attitudes toward gay and lesbian couples and the aftereffects of war.
This is an engaging, powerful, and very human story.
About the Author: Howard J Kogan is a psychotherapist, writer, and poet. After setting aside writing and poetry to focus on family and his psychotherapy career, he has now returned to it with renewed interest. His work has appeared in Still Crazy, OccuPoetry, Poetry Ark, Naugatuck River Review, Jewish Currents Anthology, Literary Gazette, Pathways, Up the River, Point Mass Anthology, Misfit Magazine, Flair, and Award-Winning Poems from Smith's Tavern Poet Laureate Contest (2010 and 2011 editions).
His collection of poetry, Indian Summer, was published in 2011 and a chapbook, General Store Poems, was published in 2014. A new collection of poems, A Chill in the Air, will be published in 2016. No View is his first novel.
He lives with his wife, Libby, in the Taconic
Mountains of upstate New York.
