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Claire and Dorotea are best friends and beautiful women. Their
affable rivalry turns serious in a game that has been played out
over two hundred thousand years. It's a competition that has shaped
the very course of human culture, and created a penis of a size
disproportionate to its function. Claire is well educated and
highly intelligent. She knows what she wants and how to get it. She
lectures in anthropology. Studying for her PhD, her thesis is The
Role of the Clitoris in the Evolution of Love. She quotes
Shakespeare and feminist interpretations of Darwinian theory.
Dorotea is an independent, professional photographer. Although she
studied the same things with Claire in high school, she's now an
artist, not a scientist and she has two things that Claire wants.
One is a photo album, the existence of which she only accidentally
reveals to Claire. It is locked and hidden in a darkroom. No one
else has ever seen it. Inside are photos like no other. The second
is something Dorotea will take to the other side of the planet to
avoid losing. But when she gets there, the same forces that drive
Claire will nearly kill her and make her lose what she's found ...
until someone special intervenes.
The Family Caught is a mesmeric expose of what is normally hidden
from public scrutiny: what happens when a family self-destructs and
ends up in the Family Court. Although a piece of fiction, this
story of three children's experiences of separation, divorce and
the dreadful after-effects has been played out many times in real
life. It is a confronting story and not for the faint hearted. It
follows the lives of first the parents and then the children as
their worlds fall apart. How do children cope during separation?
What do their parents do about it? What do the authorities do about
it? There is laughter, there are tears, there are little heroes who
don't deserve the traumas they are put through but who manage to
cope anyway. If you like courtroom drama, if you like to see a
family in microcosm, if you like to see the struggles of ordinary
people for justice, then this book will remain on your mind for
years after reading it.
Claire and Dorotea are best friends and beautiful women. Their
affable rivalry turns serious in a game that has been played out
over two hundred thousand years. It's a competition that has shaped
the very course of human culture, and created a penis of a size
disproportionate to its function. Claire is well educated and
highly intelligent. She knows what she wants and how to get it. She
lectures in anthropology. Studying for her PhD, her thesis is The
Role of the Clitoris in the Evolution of Love. She quotes
Shakespeare and feminist interpretations of Darwinian theory.
Dorotea is an independent, professional photographer. Although she
studied the same things with Claire in high school, she's now an
artist, not a scientist and she has two things that Claire wants.
One is a photo album, the existence of which she only accidentally
reveals to Claire. It is locked and hidden in a darkroom. No one
else has ever seen it. Inside are photos like no other. The second
is something Dorotea will take to the other side of the planet to
avoid losing. But when she gets there, the same forces that drive
Claire will nearly kill her and make her lose what she's found ...
until someone special intervenes.
The Wanderer was written to show the different sides of human
nature when society breaks down. It also shows man's persistence to
create different classes and form segregation, even when mankind is
on the brink of extinction. This is the story of not one person or
class but the different people and classes that now reside in a
dying world, drawn together to fight against a tyranny that
threatens their very existence. After a nuclear war that almost
wiped all life from the planet, one country remained habitable for
the last remaining life on Earth, were humans are placed into two
classes, those that are privileged are known as 'Vault Dwellers'
and are given the opportunity to live in the city sized vaults deep
underground were life continues as it did before the holocaust. The
Uplanders are those that were deemed unworthy of Earth's last
remaining haven and left to walk the scorched earth were only the
strong survive. Two people now hold the fate of the Uplanders in
their hands, one fights to create a single society and bring the
cursed down into the vaults and the other fights to leave them to
their fate and through his quenchless thirst for power gain total
control the vaults. It is a battle that will bring together in
unison every class to fight for mans right to exist. This is the
story of that battle, this is the story of 'The Wanderer'.
The Wanderer was written to show the different sides of human
nature when society breaks down. It also shows man's persistence to
create different classes and form segregation, even when mankind is
on the brink of extinction. This is the story of not one person or
class but the different people and classes that now reside in a
dying world, drawn together to fight against a tyranny that
threatens their very existence. After a nuclear war that almost
wiped all life from the planet, one country remained habitable for
the last remaining life on Earth, were humans are placed into two
classes, those that are privileged are known as 'Vault Dwellers'
and are given the opportunity to live in the city sized vaults deep
underground were life continues as it did before the holocaust. The
Uplanders are those that were deemed unworthy of Earth's last
remaining haven and left to walk the scorched earth were only the
strong survive. Two people now hold the fate of the Uplanders in
their hands, one fights to create a single society and bring the
cursed down into the vaults and the other fights to leave them to
their fate and through his quenchless thirst for power gain total
control the vaults. It is a battle that will bring together in
unison every class to fight for mans right to exist. This is the
story of that battle, this is the story of 'The Wanderer'.
Death haunts the pages of Natural Causes, but so does compassion
and love. There is little darkness here, and less despair, despite
the abundance of cemeteries, loss, and ghosts - both real and
imagined. Mark Cox's youthful bravado has given way in these poems
to an assured sense of understatement. The weight of fatherhood,
the loss of a grandmother, the fear of loneliness - these are the
details around which Cox plumbs the depths of mortality and memory.
Fully comfortable with the domestic tableau from which he writes,
this is a poet never complacent. The penchants for metaphor and the
resonant turn of phrase that informed Cox's earlier work remain as
vibrant as ever, indeed are heightened, as he masterfully affirms
and celebrates the range of familial complexity and human
connectedness.
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