It's Like This

After serving in the 45th Infantry during the Second World War, John (Jack) O'Brien settled into a career of climbing scaffolds to paint murals on the walls and ceilings of cathedrals, churches and statehouses. In the early 1960's an accident opening a coke bottle ended his career and ten years later he rented a tiny Spartan studio in Markham Village, Toronto, Canada and began a torrent of writing that would last more than three years. In the office was a single bed, a hook for his coat and