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Journal of a UFO investigator a novel

Coming of age in the turbulent 1960s, Danny Shapiro copes with family troubles and loneliness by inventing a fantastical alternate life in which he falls in love with a beautiful thief and protects a half-alien child destined to save the world.

Main Author:	Halperin, David J.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Viking, 2011.
Subjects:	Teenagers > Fiction. Unidentified flying objects > Fiction. Mothers > Death > Fiction. Pennsylvania > History > 20th century > Fiction.

Summary:	Coming of age in the turbulent 1960s, Danny Shapiro copes with family troubles and loneliness by inventing a fantastical alternate life in which he falls in love with a beautiful thief and protects a half-alien child destined to save the world.
Physical Description:	294 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	9780670022458 (hbk.) 0670022454 (hbk.)
Author Notes:	In the 1960s, David Halperin was a teen-age UFO investigator. Later he became a professor of religious studies -- his specialty, religious traditions of heavenly ascent. From 1976 through 2000, he taught Jewish history in the Religious Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Now retired from teaching, he lives in North Carolina with his wife Rose. Journal of a UFO Investigator is his first novel.

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