Morality Tale A Novel |
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Author:
| Brownrigg, Sylvia |
ISBN: | 978-1-58243-481-0 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2009 |
Publisher: | Counterpoint Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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Morality Tale is a novel about the triangular complications of a modern marriage and the comedy that flows from them. When the elusive but exciting Richard (an envelope salesman with a nice layperson’s line in Zen philosophies) meets this novel’s narrator, he offers her a friendly escape from her own daunting domestic life. Burdened by her husband’s ongoing negotiations with his angry ex-wife, the strains of looking after two stepchildren, and...
More Description Morality Tale is a novel about the triangular complications of a modern marriage and the comedy that flows from them. When the elusive but exciting Richard (an envelope salesman with a nice layperson’s line in Zen philosophies) meets this novel’s narrator, he offers her a friendly escape from her own daunting domestic life.
Burdened by her husband’s ongoing negotiations with his angry ex-wife, the strains of looking after two stepchildren, and the lingering ghost of her own past betrayals, she finds that the life of a second marryer” leaves much to be desired.
As her friendship develops with Richard, so grows the shadow cast over her marriage by his presence, and when they make a late, illicit bay crossing together on a ferryboat, the story gathers momentum under California’s Mount Tamalpais. There, in the fabled Golden State, Sylvia Brownrigg shows how even a layperson’s Zen can lead to some important revelations about the need to look forward, not back.
Told with unwavering honesty and wit, Morality Tale explores what it means to be married a second time aroundand the crucial universal truth that change is often the key to staying together.