Wine & Words
Patrick@GablesWine,com
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My name is Patrick Alexander and for the past forty years I have lived
in Coral Gables, Miami, Florida where, among other things, I teach wine
appreciation classes – hence the name of this site, GablesWine.com. I am
also a writer.
One of my recent books, BOOMER, tells the story of the ‘Baby
Boom’ generation: it’s about ‘old folk’ like me, who’ve lived through
eight decades and crossed over two centuries and two millennia: from
Churchill to Trump, and from the Beatles to Taylor Swift. It’s a fun and
fascinating story!
My most recent book, Coral Gables: The First Hundred Years celebrates
the upcoming centennial of my adopted hometown in April 2025. Other
recent books include Building Paradise, the history of Miami and
South Florida, and The Booklovers’ Guide to Wine which is based
on the wine classes I have taught for almost twenty years.
My books of fiction include three novels set in an imaginary, and not
very well disguised version of Coral Gables – entitled The Greenhaven
Trilogy.
My first book, back in 2007, Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time,
was a study of the French novelist Marcel Proust, and in June 2022 I
released A Dance to Lost Time comparing Proust’s seven volume
novel In Search of Lost Time, with Anthony Powell’s twelve volume novel
A Dance to the Music of Time.
All my books are available as paperbacks on Amazon, as
well as e-books on
Kindle or
as audiobooks on Audible. |