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Hungry ghost : a novel / Keith Kachtick.
Van Pelt Library PS3611.A27 H8 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kachtick, Keith.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Americans--Morocco--Fiction.
- Americans.
- Germans--Morocco--Fiction.
- Germans.
- Photographers--Fiction.
- Photographers.
- Buddhists.
- Morocco.
- Catholics--Fiction.
- Catholics.
- Buddhists--Fiction.
- Morocco--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Adventure fiction.
- Love stories.
- Physical Description:
- 322 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2003]
- Summary:
- Carter Cox, 39, is a talented but dissipated photojournalist living in New York who yearns to do more meaningful artistic work and to mend his womanizing, substance-abusing ways. He also wants to put into practice the lessons he learns from his Buddhist betters, but he continues to carry with him his seduction kit: a chessboard, cigarettes, a pack of cards, and a Cormac McCarthy novel. At a Buddhist retreat in Upstate New York, he meets Mia Malone, 26, beautiful, smart, serious -- and a devout Catholic determined to remain a virgin until she is married. They fall in love, though in Carter's case it may just be lust.
- With both of their souls hanging in the balance, they go to Morocco on a photo shoot, where they run afoul of a sadistic gendarme and face other external dangers that complement their emotional crisis. Hungry Ghost is a provocative and entertaining debut novel about physical and spiritual lives at risk.
- ISBN:
- 0060523905
- OCLC:
- 50906161
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