ISBN: 0-88739-279-2
368 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 1/2001
Paperback Original
Price: $17.95
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Spying On My Dreams
Laurence Howard
Rudy Boheman leads a normal life, caught in a mid-life squeeze between his job limitations, his unrealized dream to sing opera, and the persistent desire of his younger wife Mimi, who's hearing her biological clock ticking ever louder. As Rudy approaches his forty-ninth birthday, he struggles to reconcile both the sublime and the mundane in his world, and finds, if not the meaning of life, then the meaning of his life.
"Mimi's garden is rich with color and bloom. She's told me the names of her flowers so many times I dare not ask again lest she think I'm not half as smart as I pretend to be. I'll claim to have a terrible memory for names, to which she'll say, 'Why don't you pay attention?' After all, I remember all those characters from Mozart and Wagner and Verdi and all the near-infinite descriptions of hardware and software components. I know the difference between the theorems of Leibnitz and Pascal, Lobachevsky and Euler and Riemann. Yet, when it comes to the yellow things and the purple things and the pink things with thin red veins growing under her hand, I'm hopeless. Call them beautiful and be done."
Bio: LAURENCE HOWARD holds an Ed.D. in philosophy and is a musician. He has taught high school mathematics and university economics and worked as a strategic planner. He now supports his writing habit as a free-lance programmer. Spying On My Dreams is his sixth novel.
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