Applause

Fiction & Literature
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Author: Elizabeth Cain ISBN: 9781491728604
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: April 16, 2014
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: Elizabeth Cain
ISBN: 9781491728604
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: April 16, 2014
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

After admiring UCLAs popular English professor and poet, Dr. William Langley for eleven years, twenty-seven-year-old graduate student Sela Hart is finally accepted into one of his exclusive creative writing classes. She has had her own work published and studied in Africa, and he has had a stressful twenty-year marriage to a lesbian woman while struggling to balance his world with the demands of academia. But the forty-year-old Langley is intrigued by Selas strange stories, while she is drawn to his emotional reeling at the sudden death of his wife in a horrendous car accident. The two become friends and then lovers, being touched along the way by Langleys late wifes gay friends, a Tanzanian man who cares for endangered animals, and Selas grandmother, who raises the only blue rose in the world. As Selas stories about an aging actor named William Hathaway and a girl named Angela Starwho may or may not be realintensify, Langley begins to show signs of mental confusion and illness. The fictional Chalice River from Selas Quantum Crossing collection becomes a real place for himone that is lonely, dark, and frightening. When he is ultimately swept away in a dj vu car accident just yards from where his wife died, his only hope is the power of Selas passionate tale and her invincible love.

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After admiring UCLAs popular English professor and poet, Dr. William Langley for eleven years, twenty-seven-year-old graduate student Sela Hart is finally accepted into one of his exclusive creative writing classes. She has had her own work published and studied in Africa, and he has had a stressful twenty-year marriage to a lesbian woman while struggling to balance his world with the demands of academia. But the forty-year-old Langley is intrigued by Selas strange stories, while she is drawn to his emotional reeling at the sudden death of his wife in a horrendous car accident. The two become friends and then lovers, being touched along the way by Langleys late wifes gay friends, a Tanzanian man who cares for endangered animals, and Selas grandmother, who raises the only blue rose in the world. As Selas stories about an aging actor named William Hathaway and a girl named Angela Starwho may or may not be realintensify, Langley begins to show signs of mental confusion and illness. The fictional Chalice River from Selas Quantum Crossing collection becomes a real place for himone that is lonely, dark, and frightening. When he is ultimately swept away in a dj vu car accident just yards from where his wife died, his only hope is the power of Selas passionate tale and her invincible love.

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