Mrs Demming and the Mythical Beast
Mrs Demming and the Mythical Beast
ISBN: 9780026154505
定价: 163.00
内容简介
On the surface Larissa Demming is
a happily married woman. She dabbles
in watercolors, indulges her husband,
a preoccupied professor, and worries
about her alarmingly practical chil-
dren. She is indifferent to anything
that would expose her true feelings.
That is, until a walk along the river-
front near her midwestern home brings
her face to face with the sensuous
satyr Pan. It is Pan who at last
unleashes her long-dormant sexuality
and frees her to confront her secret
desires and her hidden past.
Mrs. Detaining and the Mythical
Beast is Faith Sullivan s most exhil-
arating novel yet, a seemingly whim-
sical yet provocative odyssey that
moves from buoyant comedy to
romantic fantasy to gripping drama.
Larissa Detaining knows that once she becomes involved with Pan, her
life--and the lives of everyone around
her--will never be the same. Yet she
does, and we move with her, from the
Minnesota countryside to the Greek
isles, where Pan forces her to confront
herself and her forbidden past.
Faith Sullivan s first novel, Repent,
Lanny Merkel, was hailed by the Los
Angeles Times as "a very funny tale of
modern-day morality." The West Coast
Review of Books* also said, "Move
over, Jean Kerr, move over Erma
Bombeck and Judith Guest, for Faith
Sullivan has entered the scene," and
Library Journal compared her to Erica
Jong and Gail Parent.
In Mrs. Detaining and the Mythical
Beast, Faith Sullivan has created an
enchanting story about the risks and
rewards of releasing our own very real
beasts.