Leaving Losapas by Roland Merullo

Leaving Losapas by Roland Merullo

Leaving Losapas begins on a tiny atoll in the equatorial Pacific. Leo Markin, a young US Marine and Vietnam combat veteran who survived the war, found himself so changed by the experience that he simply could not find a way to return to his home, family, and his fiancee in a working class city of his birth outside of Boston. The islanders in Losapas are kind to him-he had been living there for years-and he had found a woman he came to love. Various events conspire to convince him to return to America, but on his return home he feels lost. He has troubling encounters with his aging father, finds that his fiancee has married another man and appears trapped in an abusive relationship, and his old friends seem like strangers to him. Leo is torn between the peaceful, natural way of life on the island, and the rougher rules of his upbringing. In the end, though he has sworn to turn his back on physical violence, it is an act of physical violence that convinces him the only place he can live is Losapas. When his father suddenly dies, Leo decides to leave the house he inherits to his former fiancee-thus encouraging her to leave her husband-and he returns to the life he left behind and to his island lover. Boston Magazine called Leaving Losapas a great surprising book.the best novel of the year. and The Rocky Mountain News said it's a wondrous, spiritually rich story.Merullo has created something of beauty.Leaving Losapas will linger in your mind long after you close its pages.

Roland Merullo is the critically renowned author of the Revere Beach trilogy, Golfing with God, and Breakfast with Buddha, among other works of fiction and nonfiction. Among other venues, his pieces have appeared in the New York Times, Reader's Digest, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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ISBN 13	9780983313960
ISBN 10	0983313962
Title	Leaving Losapas
Author	Roland Merullo
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pfp Publishing
Year published	2011-03-01
Number of pages	306
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