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Valley of the Shadows & Surrender: A Novel Duet
Valley of the Shadows & Surrender: A Novel Duet
Valley of the Shadows & Surrender: A Novel Duet
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Valley of the Shadows is a duet of two novels, concerning the fickleness of pursuing fame in a society that measures success by media adoration. In the title novel, Marya Brooks, an experienced poet in her seventies, decides to practice amateur obeah (voodoo) to cast negative spells on her favorite top five poets, the thriving competition. Only when each poet begins to die mysteriously does she develop guilt for her actions. Her former student, H.D., believes her research can dispute Marya's fallacious theories.



Surrender, the second poem-novel, alternates between viewpoints of Rory Pole, an aspiring songwriter, and her idol, country music rising star, Maggie Moore. Also set in the southeast, primarily on both coasts of southern Florida, Rory is bitter when she receives no response from Maggie but notices that lines of her poems begin appearing in the singer's songs.



In both novels, all characters eventually give up illusions and false patterns of behavior in these chilling stories, regarding the relevance of mass recognition and inordinate acclaim and adulation. They are novels-of-the-future, in accord with Anais Nin's tenets that commingle art with moral issues for compelling psychological literature.

LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateSep 14, 2004
ISBN9780595775897
Valley of the Shadows & Surrender: A Novel Duet
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Rochelle L. Holt

Rochelle L. Holt was born in Chicago, Illinois. Known for her poetry she was ranked among the top 3% of America?s major poets in a nationwide survey for Writers Digest. She earned her MFA in Fiction from the Writers Workshop of U of Iowa in l970. Her work has been published in all genres.

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