Jon Foyt Releases His Latest Book 'Marcel Proust in Taos: In Search of Times Past'

LOS ANGELES, July 2, 2013 - Jon Foyt has announced that his new book "Marcel Proust in Taos: In Search of Times Past" is now available for sale.

In Marcel Proust in Taos, a Los Alamos physicist, Christopher, retires to Taos, New Mexico, with his cat Marcel Proust, to write a novel about nuclear terrorism. There he meets aspiring artist Marlene, from Germany, and the two fall in love. They open a microbrewery, using the brewing recipes passed down to Marlene from her brewmaster grandfather. However, together they find themselves confronting terrorism of a new sort with the matriarch of the Taos community, Agnes Havelock Powers, who strongly opposes having a brewery in town. Agnes is rich, powerful, and influential. She has the city authorities tucked in her purse next to her checkbook. Follow the exciting and charming love story of Marlene and Christopher in historical Taos, as they experience the challenges of confronting abusive power.

Marcel Proust in Taos is available for sale on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Marcel-Proust-Taos-Search-Times/dp/1481879162/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372171614&sr=1-1

Jon Foyt is the successful author of 10 fiction books. Striving for new heights on the literary landscape, along with his late wife Lois, Jon Foyt began writing novels 20 years ago. He holds a degree in journalism and an MBA from Stanford and a second masters degree in historic preservation from the University of Georgia. Jon lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico for 16 years. An octogenarian prostate cancer survivor, Jon, 81, is a marathon runner (60 completed), hiker, and political columnist for The Rossmoor News. He currently resides in Walnut Creek, CA. For more information, visit http://jonfoyt.com/

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