Dead Reckoning by Blayney Colmore
Henry retired from preaching to compose poetry. His preaching had been more poetry than prose to disguise his uncertainty about pretty much everything, his wiles devoted to concealing his fear that he was heir mostly to his alcoholic, agoraphobic mother, dead twenty years. Now, at the insistence of his hard-shell, litigator wife, Alice, he's gone to the attic to get rid of the rotting box that holds his mother's detritus. As he thumbs through a tiny telephone/address book he remembers being on his mother's desk, he's haunted by memory of name after name. His late mother joins in his conversation challenging Henry to wrestle demons he's fended off his whole life. His choice: dismiss his mother again, or plunge into the fray, perhaps making peace with himself. And her. The conversation leads Henry places he's always detoured around. As he embraces old demons, you may, too.
Colmore, Blayney: - Blayney Colmore, ordained an Episcopal priest in the tumultuous 60s, considered social and political radicalism as essential as faith and biblical exegesis. Over thirty years in four parishes-Ohio, Washington, D.C., Dedham, Massachusetts, La Jolla, California, hardly hotbeds of revolution, his anger at injustices grew to encompass compassion for the ambiguities that cause decent people to behave indecently. In 1996, he stepped aside from preaching to write. This is his fourth book. He and his wife Lacey, a noted interior designer, divide their time between Vermont and California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780692304358 |
| ISBN 10 | 0692304355 |
| Title | Dead Reckoning |
| Author | Blayney Colmore |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Blayney Colmore |
| Year published | 2014-10-24 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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