Purchase
Grant Place Press
November 2011
On Sale: November 17, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 0984675108
EAN: 9780984675104
Kindle: B0063UQVM2
Paperback / e-Book
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction
Oxford Messed Up is a unique literary love story that
transports readers on a meaningful and emotional journey
where the academic world of Oxford, the music of Van
Morrison, and an old claw-foot bathtub serve as a backdrop
for learning, self-discovery, and transcendent love. Rhodes
Scholar Gloria Zimmerman is an academic superstar who has
come to Oxford University to study feminist poetry. Yet the
rigors of the academy pale in comparison to her untreated
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, fueled by her overachieving
parents and manifested in a deathly aversion to germs and
human contact. Her next-door neighbor (who is also, to her
mortification, her loomate) is Henry Young, the appealing
but underachieving musician son of an overbearing and
disapproving Oxford don. Still mourning the death of his supportive mother while
enduring the mockery of his disapproving and merciless
father, Henry is haunted by the unexpectedly serious
ramifications of a reckless and tragic youth. Gloria and
Henry's relationship evolves from a shared obsession with
Van Morrison's music into a desire on the part of each to
fill in the gaps in the life of the other. Yet the
constraints of a debilitating illness and the looming
revelation of a catastrophic secret conspire to throw their
worlds into upheaval and threaten the possibilities of their
unlikely yet redemptive love.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2024 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy