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Award-winning Put-in-Bay author Bob Adamov
Releases Alone At Home
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A hilarious romp becomes a story of redemption on Christmas Eve
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Author Bob Adamov, a 75-year-old avid fan Zenobia, Missing, Golden Torpedo, Chincoteague from a battle of wits with a cheeky
by
of the classic Christmas film Home Alone, Calm, Flight, Assateague Dark, Sunset Blues, seagull to the relentless interruptions by
has crafted a unique version tailored for his White Spider Night, a 20th anniversary edition neighbors. George’s quest for peace is is
readers about the escapades of a cranky of Rainbow’s End, Sawdust Joint and Holden’s perpetually sabotaged by the precocious
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senior left alone at home. “I aimed to create a Promise plus Memory Layne. grandson of the lady next door among
humorous and engaging Christmas tale with other uproarious incidents.
a redemptive theme that resonates with my The Story in Brief… Alone At Home is a heartwarming g
fellow seniors,” Adamov shared. He added In Southport, North Carolina, a Christmas story of redemption. As George e
with a chuckle, “My wife often says that many tale unfolds when 80-year-old George Ivers grapples with a haunting memory, ,
of the funny situations experienced by the is left alone at home while his wife visits a he embarks on a journey of self-
main character, George Ivers, are inspired by sister for five days. George has to watch the discovery. It’s a Christmas classic in
my own life misadventures.” cat he dislikes, resulting in a series of comical the making, peppered with wit, the
Alone At Home is not part of his string of escapades. Picture a man who’s a blend of resilience of the human spirit, and the
island bestsellers in the popular Emerson the gruffness of Archie Bunker, the stone-age transformative power of forgiveness.
Moore series that includes Rainbow’s End, charm of Fred Flintstone, and the nearsighted
Pierce the Veil, When Rainbows Walk, Promised blunders of Mr. Magoo, and you’ve got George. Adamov was named as Best Lake
Land, The Other Side of Hell, Tan Lines, Sandustee, His days are filled with hilarious mishaps, Erie Author in 2022 by Lake Erie
Living magazine and as one of
Publish Ohio’s favorite authors in 2020. He Hollywood
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won Writer of the Year (2010) in regional Book Festival, London Book
competition sponsored by the University of Festival, New York Book Festival, the Indie
Akron’s Wayne College and was the featured Awards, Great Midwest Book Festival and
author at the 2006 Ernest Hemingway Florida Book Festival. Adamov has also
Literary Festival in Key West. Adamov’s presented at several of the Clive Cussler
first novel - Rainbow’s End - was a 2003 Collectors Society conventions.
runner-up as the top fiction novel in the Signed copies of his novels are available at
Great Lakes (won by Pulitzer Prize winner www.BobAdamov.com.
– Middlesex.) His novels were rated 5 Stars For more information or to have Adamov
by the Midwest Book Review and several speak at your event, visit: www.BobAdamov.
were named as top novels in northeast Ohio com or call: 330-289-7616. Follow him on
by the Akron Beacon Journal. Adamov’s Facebook. MAB
novels additionally have won awards at the
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