One Flesh

About the Book

When Arthur Wick, a rich Denver doctor, fell in love and in bed with Catherine, his lovely and ambitious accountant, he conveniently forgot that he was married to Dorothy, his wife of 25 years. When a real estate speculation with his partner, Marshal Spoor, produced an incredible windfall, Arthur believed he now lived in a land filled with the milk and honey of wealth and love. As the Arabs pushed the price of oil to new highs and Denver became the center of a new oil boom, Arthur and Marshal saw themselves as fabulously rich and powerful, allied with Bob Ryan, the state’s governor, and Wendell Purcell, a transplanted Texas oilman with an incredible talent for finding oil.

As Arthur succeeds in love and business, Dorothy rebuilds her life in the small town where she and Arthur grew up. There she finds solace in working for “La Tienda,” a charitable store serving the poor Hispanics of the community, as her high school sweetheart courts her. Finally, both Arthur and Dorothy learn that Providence can bring sorrows out of joys and joys out of sorrows.

About the Author

Richard Dice, a graduate of the Wallace Stegner school of Creative Writing at Stanford, lives with his first wife, who is also his editor, in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. In September of 2001 Xlibris published his novel, “The Rattlesnake Room,” a story of Denver in the tumultuous year of 1968.