Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Marisa
by Peter Cowlam
Description
The book’s central time frame is the 1970s, when Bruce takes over a financial consultancy firm founded by his father, and Marisa inherits property. Love, lust and money are what drive them both, until their relationship meets its first challenge. Bruce retreats further into the world of commerce. Marisa’s interests are social and political.
Twenty-five years on from their affair, a chance entry in one of Bruce’s business listings shows that Marisa is now boss of the Rae Agency – a media PR concern. Bruce, as he recollects their tumultuous relationship, is torn between his harmonious family life, and renewing contact with Marisa. Finally, when he does decide on a course of action, he has to face the truth of not having grasped the cultural separation their two different views of the world have wrought over the last quarter century.
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Review by Jennifer Armstrong.
A fiery collision of interests, not without its pathos, when Bruce meets Marisa. The former is destined to be head of a financial house founded by his father, for whom the suffragettes, let alone second- and third-wave feminists, might just as well not have happened. The latter is a left-leaning arts polymath, and tags along with Bruce and his patriarchal pronouncements, but only up to a point. It’s debatable whether she manages to teach him anything. A great deal of sumptuous prose is expended throughout this charming novella as Marisa undoubtedly tries. Jack d'Argus
Author Biography
Peter Cowlam studied Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts. He has had plays performed at the Barbican Theatre, Plymouth, and by the Dartington Playgoers, and has had readings at the State University of New York and for the Theatre West 100 Plays project in Bristol, England.
As a novelist, he has won the Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction twice, most recently in 2018 for his novel New King Palmers, which is at the intersection of old, crumbling empires and new, digital agglomerates.
His other Quagga award was in 2015 for his novel Who's Afraid of the Booker Prize?, a satire on literary celebrity. The Quagga Prize is awarded for independently published works of fiction.
He has had four collections of haikuesque poems published (one in collaboration with Kathryn Kopple), also independently, and as poet and writer of fiction his work has appeared on the Fairlight Books website, in En Bloc, The Battersea Review, The San Francisco Review of Books, The Blue Nib, The Galway Review, Easy Street, Literary Matters, Eunoia Review, The Brown Boat, Valparaiso Fiction Review, The Four Quarters Magazine, Ink, Sweat & Tears, The Liberal, the Criterion, and others.
Peter Cowlam is the Literary Editor at Ars Notoria (arsnotoria.com). He can be contacted at petercowlam@gmail.com
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Copyright (c) 2006, Peter Cowlam.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher CentreHouse Press
- Publication Date March 2006
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781902086033 / 1902086031
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatEbook
- Primary Price 3.64 GBP
- Pages87
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- EditionFirst
- Copyright Year2006
- Biblio NotesFormerly CIP.
- Reference CodeBDZ0007441703
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