The Ozone Café
By: Published on Kindle by Author
Edition: Kindle Digital Edition
Publisher: Adelaide Books
Published: December 2021
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781956635300
Copyright date: July 2022
First sentence: It was perhaps the first time a freezing sensation had overwhelmed him.
Notes: The Ozone Café is about three separate owners of the café and its demise through political corruption.
1st owner
Fifty-six year-old Vincenzo Polamo has migrated to Australia to start a new life. He has left his family back in Calabria, but hopes they will join him when they are ready. He eventually settles in fictional Satara Bay and with the help of his builder brother, builds the Ozone Café in 1957 in an ideal beach location in this popular holiday town.
2nd owners
Joe & Shirley Pendlebury are the next owners. However, Joe suffers setbacks with too few customers, poor health and a violent storm that causes wall damage. In suspicious circumstances Pendlebury goes missing and his wife Shirley sells the café.
3rd owners
Con and Dion Lasaridis (Greek boys) are the third owners. While the Ozone is a success, storm damage that they inherited from the previous owners/time is a serious problem and the Greek boys fight to save the cafe from demolition.
Table of contents: title: Part 1, Chapters 1-45, Afterword, Acknowledgements, About the Author