Jay (Jürg) P. Keller was born in Zurich, Switzerland and studied Americanism, Italian Literature and Journalism at Zurich University and worked in the West Hartford Public School System (Connecticut, U.S.A.) as a teacher of foreign languages.
His publications so far contain a non-fiction study on The American Dream Gone Astray (his Ph. D. thesis), two Grammar Companions for the learners of English and a collection of poems, Logomumaints.
At the moment, Doctor Keller lectures at different schools in the Engadin and leads guided tours to places of interest throughout the U.S.A.
With the title, the author alludes to what is probably the most decisive piece of furniture in a bar, namely the counter, over which countless drinks are pushed from the bartender to the customer each night.
In his first work in the genre of the short story - and influenced by probably...
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