Babe in the Woods

by Demarco, Frank

• ISBN13: 9780982009819
• ISBN10: 098200981X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-01
• Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Summary

Reporter Angelo Chiari is sent to attend a week-long residential program at the C.T. Merriman Institute, a course that promises to help participants to develop their own "extraordinary potential." He doesn't believe a word of it, and expects to write a debunking article that will show people fooling themselves. Surprise, Mr. Chiari! It isn't long before he begins to experience, first-hand, some of the things he has always assumed to be impossible. As new perceptions and intuitions accumulate, he has to consider how much of his old world-view he can modify without becoming (as he would put it) "a fruitcake." And there are more practical concerns as well, including the question of what happens when a long-married man falls in love with a long-married woman and they both know that a relationship is impossible. Yet this dilemma is almost pushed aside by other extraordinary happenings and concerns, until Angelo finds himself living in a different world.