A Trilogy Three Hearts... One Soul

About the Book

This book is about three love stories as told by the author who courageously endured the death of his two wives and fought back to live a life of supreme accomplishment.

This is a success story that has no ending because it is replete with constant efforts to achieve tikun olam (repairing the world).

The storyteller is an inspiration, a whirlwind of creativity whose abundant projects span the gamut from antique wood type collecting to giraffe zoological research. And, in between, he pursues a multitude of efforts including producing the first Kosher Foods Expo, coordinating a phenomenally successful Jewish Voter Registration campaign, surviving the ordeal of expulsion from the Soviet Union, giving birth to Parents without Partners and memorializing his wives by conducting dozens of wedding ceremonies performed in his Maine lighthouse.

No one can read this book without being inspired by a runty Jewish kid from the Lower East Side of New York, living in abject poverty and troubled with multiple physical handicaps, who achieves prominence and entrepreneurial success.

Whether he is comforting his terminally ill first wife or enabling his second wife’s oxygen tail to stay connected to becoming his children’s mainstay, Irving accents his role as a real family man.

About the Author

Although Irving Silverman has been writing sincehe was eight years of age, this is his first “official” book. His eagerness to provide a tangible memorial for his two wives propelled the planning of the two biographies and his desire not to be remembered as “Irving who?” led him to also include his own autobiography.

Actually, Irving is no stranger to publishing, having served as advertising manager, business manager and publisher of The Knitting Times, an international trade magazine. During his tenure, he created and designed over 3,000 advertisementsfor clients who did not have an advertising agency. He is also a Jewish community leader and social activist.

With all his accomplishments, he is most proud of his philanthropic activity.

He lives in Bernard, Maine and Tucson, Arizona. He has four children and six grandchildren, all of whom affectionately call him “Zayde.” As an octogenarian, he aspires to live until the proverbial 120 and intends to undertake many additional projects and write two additional books during his lifetime.