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"The narrator of THE WOMAN IN GREEN repeatedly insults his readers of 2050 and wishes he were instead addressing readers of 2025, when somewhat fewer were boneheads. Born under a curse at the exact moment of the 9/11 attacks, he looks back on two remarkable utopian experiments-one religious, the other secular-in early 19th-century New Harmony, Indiana. He then looks ahead to his grandfather Sam Coverdale's visionary effort in the millennial year 2000 to create a new ""Boatload of Knowledge"" on the banks of the Wabash. His cast of characters bears an unsettling resemblance to Mary Shelley's circle of Frankenstein intimates. What could go wrong? From a macabre scroll found under a labyrinth to a dramatic fiasco on the world stage to a heady balloon ride to freedom, these characters plus one prescient turtle hang on together as friends and lovers, narrowly averting suicide within the ranks. Along the way, a Byronic character merrily cites strong evidence, hitherto overlooked, that Shakespeare himself was a suicide. Against the odds, they emerge with lasting romantic bonds and a vision that the enigmatic Woman in Green will someday prosper on Planet Earth."

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If Kurt Vonnegut had written a new version of Midsummer Night's Dream and set it in Indiana, the result would be The Woman in Green. Like many of Vonnegut's novels, the book is a wise and witty satire-of academics, of American history, of science, turtles, and theologians-filled with Hoosier Easter eggs: the history of New Harmony and Tecumseh and the Kinsey Institute and the Wabash River. For anyone who knows Ross Lockridge's great American novel Raintree County, The Woman in Green is a must read, a loving tribute by a son to the mythical place created by his father, where characters from both novels meet. Susan Neville, award-winning author of Indiana Winter, In the House of Blue Lights, Sailing the Inland Sea, and The Town of Whispering Dolls With a madcap cast of characters worthy of Kurt Vonnegut and Charles Portis, Mr. Lockridge brilliantly skewers the pretensions of our modern dystopian age with devastating humor and inspired ranting. A triumphant conclusion to The Enigma Quartet. Former Congressman Robert J. Mrazek, author of twelve award-winning books and winner of the American Library Association's top honor for military fiction, the Michael Shaara Award for Civil War fiction, and Best Book (American History) from the Washington Post

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"LARRY LOCKRIDGE is a writer living in New York City. Professor Emeritus of English, New York University, and a Guggenheim Fellow, he is best known for the award-winning biography of his father, ""Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr.,"" author of ""Raintree County."" ""The Woman in Green"" is the last of four standalone yet interrelated, novels, ""The Enigma Quartet,"" to be published by Iguana Books. It was launched January 5, 2023, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the 1948 publication of ""Raintree County,"" to which it is indirectly an homage. MARCIA SCANLON, painter, sculptor, and poet, has studios in Soho and upstate New York. She has been represented by John Stoller, Gettler-Paul, Maxwell Davidson, Central Booking, and GarveySimon. Her artwork is in personal, corporate, library, and museum collections here and abroad. Recent imagery in drawing, watercolor, and sculpture draws on the works of Sappho, Baudelaire, Mendeleev, and Joyce."

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