Winona Sylvia Glen, a disenchanted painter, is frustrated by the whims of society that preclude her recognition as an artist. Carla, a secondary school health teacher, poses as a supporter of the arts in myriad long-distance letters to her. However, the reality of the relationship becomes the antithesis of courtship. The painter enters a challenging lottery contest where the winner will be granted relocation and fulfillment of personal desires in a quaint town known as Paradise. The novel is a study of the woman artist’s psyche as Sylvia progresses from arrested ego of her former identity into a more compassionate woman. The plot, like a painting, is interwoven with the poems Sylvia composes as sketches for her canvasses. Memories and dreams recorded in her journal are relative to her survival. Both art and life are a mirage for Sylvia, who learns the truth of nature (including human nature), does not exist except in the mind of each of us. Mirage is a journey that begins in southwest Florida and finally is completed in the desert.
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Rochelle Lynn Holt was born in Chicago in 1946. After earning her MFA in Fiction from U of Iowa Writers Workshop, she met Anais Nin and was invited to read with the author and her Circle at U of Ca in LA. Rochelle's books have appeared annually since 1970 in all genres, including her invented poem-novel. She was ranked among top 3% of Am. poets in a WRITERS DIGEST national survey conducted by Judson Jerome at the end of the last century. Her website is www.angelfire.com/blues2/rlynnholt Rochelle's books are lyrical and psychological, filled with humor, satire, irony. CUTS, a sequel to PANGS: FICTION AS THERAPY (CPU Press '90) will appear in 2012. DEATH OF AN ANGEL, a memorial is her most recent narrative poetry to honor her mother, Olga G. Holt
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"Mirage is a poetic, sensuous novel with an intriguing plot and riveting style. It is the story of the artist as a woman, struggling with the meaning of her art in a society more-conditioned to crass commercialism. When Winona Sylvia Glen wins a lottery to Paradise, she assumes her dreams will come true in the gift of her own gallery she names Mirage....When Sylvia is ready to paint, "she can almost smell the colors burning in her brain." The novel becomes a one-woman exhibition of paintings because of memories from Winona's past. Sylvia feels the ghost of her father (and other characters) surrounding her as she begins to decode her dreams...With unusual irony, the author makes her readers face the absurdities of life as well the hypocrisy and unexpected kindness. Her vivid vision becomes the theme of MIRAGE: real love is loving who you are in whatever place that may be." Maryanne Raphael
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