Mary Lee Settle

6 x 9, 354 pages
paper, ISBN 1-57003-096-0, $12.95t

ABOUT THE BOOK

Celebration chronicles the love story of a widowed American anthropologist and a Scottish geologist as well as the intertwining tales of the couple's eccentric circle of friends, which include a homosexual English aristocrat, a gargantuan African Jesuit, an editor of pornographic literature, and an overzealous CIA agent. Despite the fact that these characters live in the most murderous of centuries and have all reckoned with death in some intimate fashion, they choose to celebrate life over death.

Set in 1969, this joyful novel ends with a wedding, a funeral, and a celebration—all in London, though the celebrants hail from around the globe. Together they view the twentieth century's strangest event—the landing on the moon—a happening which seems to presage an even more displaced future.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mary Lee Settle was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and has lived in England, Turkey, and New York. Her novel Blood Tie won the National Book Award and her novel Choices received the Lillian Smith Award for fiction. Settle's other works include the novels Charley Bland, Celebration, The Clam Shell, The Love Eaters, The Kiss of Kinand a memoir, All the Brave Promises. Settle now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

Addie
Charley Bland
Prisons
Know Nothing
The Scapegoat
The Killing Ground
All the Brave Promises
Blood Tie
The Clam Shell
The Love Eaters and The Kiss of Kin