TRIPLE SEC
Three Distilled Love Stories
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The trio of stories in TRIPLE SEC is like the high alcoholic liqueur: a bitter-sweet extract of orange rind thrice distilled for intensity.
In “The Vital Instinct,” Nick is in love with Laura who is losing her memory. He discovers that one perfume alone, helping her to remember, rekindles their dying passion. But only Andre her jilted ex-lover who hates her but wants her has access to the formula of the defunct fragrance.
In “Sign of the Archer,” Justin an archeologist gifted with clairvoyance is asked to join homeland security to become its living deterrent. His foresight is clouded by falling in love with Priya, an Indonesian model, who is his partner in anti-terrorism, as they both seek to safeguard a presidential visit.
In “The Blue Hours,” a graduate student of journalism takes as his subject Juro, a renowned Japanese sculptor. In conversations held only at dusk, he learns how the sculptor has discovered an “identical” twin sister Mika after thirty years’ separation; and how forbidden love heightens passion at the cost o
About the Author
Joseph Roccasalvo followed his graduate degrees in Philosophy, English Literature, and Theology with a Harvard Ph.D. in Comparative Religion and a specialty in Buddhism. He has lived and taught in Boston, Bangkokm and Chicago. For ten years in New York City, he was a professor of religious studies at Fordham University's Bronx and Lincoln Center Campus. He was also visiting professor of Buddhism in Lugano, Switzerland. Now engaged in full-time teaching, he devotes himself to two alliterative loves: prose and pastoral work. A hospital chaplaincy and seven novels ensued: Fire in a Windless Place, Beyond the Pale, Chartreuse, Portrait of a Woman, The Devil's Interval, The Powers that Be, and the Odor of Sanctity. These were followed by two books of short stories, Outwards Signs and The Mansions of Limbo; a play, Waging Waugh, and a memoir, As It Were.