Possessed by Shadows by Donigan Merritt

Possessed by Shadows by Donigan Merritt

Possessed by Shadows is the story of two climbers who spend a year traveling from the rugged desert of Joshua Tree National Park to the Alps, the Himalayas, and the High Tatra mountains of Czechoslovakia.

Philosophy professor Tom Valen narrates part of their story: the time he spent climbing with his wife, Molly, as she fought cancer. He also explores the journal she kept during the emotional period before her death, which occurred in the weeks before the Velvet Revolution in late 1989.

Told in alternating voices as Tom relives that year, Molly's journal reveals compulsions that he never suspected, her romantic life from adolescence into adulthood, and a shocking revelation about Stefan, a fellow climber who had once saved Tom's life. In the final scene of the novel, the three old friends climb the highest mountain in the Tatras one last time, where they find a kind of redemption in the face of impending death.

Possessed by Shadows is a tribute to selfless love and the bonds of friendship forged in the extremes of high mountains. It confronts us with the ultimate philosophical challenge: since we must die, how do we choose to live?

Henry Donigan Merritt, Jr., was born in southwest Arkansas in 1945. He has worked as a journalist, scuba diver, fishing boat captain, sailing instructor, and university professor. He holds BA and MA degrees in philosophy from Simpson College and the Claremont Graduate School, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers Workshop. Merritt's first novel, One Easy Piece, was published by Coward-McCann in 1981. Since then, he has published nine novels, most recently The Love Story of Paul Collins, published by B&B Books in 2012. He lives in Mexico City.

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ISBN 13	9781590511589
ISBN 10	1590511581
Titel	Possessed by Shadows
Autor	Donigan Merritt
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Other Press LLC
Erscheinungsjahr	2005-06-17
Seitenanzahl	256
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