When recently widowed and clinically depressed Eliot Knight is admitted to the Corinthian Gardens Rest and Renewal Center, he goes there with the express purpose of ending his life. Until...
‘Alfred Alcorn’s Love and Death in the Corinthian Gardens is an elegant, thoughtful and adept exploration of life and death, love and age, then and now, continuity and change, ideas and feelings, the human and the nature worlds. An accomplished author of many fine novels, Alcorn, in this novel, has created with wit and style a meditation on words and world with distinct characters and disarming narrative voice. Alcorn gives us a fiction of reality while also giving us the reality of fiction.’ – Jonathan Locke Hart
‘Alfred Alcorn’s latest novel is an exquisite story of marital love and mourning, and love’s renewal, but it is much more: this is a moving demonstration of the ancient insights that philosophy was born in eros and in wonder, and that its practice is a life-long preparation for death.’ – Daniel Nossiter
‘Alfred Alcorn’s humor and erudition take the reader on a satirical romp through an upscale mental facility. His comic-up of the facility and its denizens will make you laugh—as well as stop and think.’ – Jay Gaffney
Genre: Literary Fiction
‘Alfred Alcorn’s Love and Death in the Corinthian Gardens is an elegant, thoughtful and adept exploration of life and death, love and age, then and now, continuity and change, ideas and feelings, the human and the nature worlds. An accomplished author of many fine novels, Alcorn, in this novel, has created with wit and style a meditation on words and world with distinct characters and disarming narrative voice. Alcorn gives us a fiction of reality while also giving us the reality of fiction.’ – Jonathan Locke Hart
‘Alfred Alcorn’s latest novel is an exquisite story of marital love and mourning, and love’s renewal, but it is much more: this is a moving demonstration of the ancient insights that philosophy was born in eros and in wonder, and that its practice is a life-long preparation for death.’ – Daniel Nossiter
‘Alfred Alcorn’s humor and erudition take the reader on a satirical romp through an upscale mental facility. His comic-up of the facility and its denizens will make you laugh—as well as stop and think.’ – Jay Gaffney
Genre: Literary Fiction
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