title: Look at the Dark (Coleman Dowell British Literature)
author:  Nicholas Mosley 
description: Mosley won the Whitbread Prize for <I>Hopeful Monsters </I>(1990) and has written 25 other works of fiction and nonfiction centering on philosophical quandaries, political instabilities and religious impasses. This time out, an unnamed retired Oxford professor of anthropology and cultural studies has becomes a talk show fixture thanks to his inflammatory rhetoric: "Of course suicide bombers are the most disliked sort of terrorists, because then there are no defendants from whom lawyers can get fat fees." Visiting New York City for a series of television appearances in the wake of 9/11, he gets hit by a car and, lying in a morphine-induced stupor, envisions the women of his life, including first wife Valerie; current wife Valentina; the one-legged African woman with whom he slept while on his honeymoon; and a young Iranian woman, Nadia, whose own complicated and nebulous history is entangled with his philosophies on fidelity, sin and grace. The resulting narrative has an apocalyptic feel, but Mosley's observations on the power and limitations of human communication are thought provoking (though parallels between the Tower of Babel and two other towers are overdone), and his acerbic narrator never quite gives up hope. <I>(Mar.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  From The Viscount With Love
  
  A "Tales From Seldon Park" Novel
  
  By Bethany M. Sefchick
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to
  be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations
  or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  Copyright © 2016
  
  Bethany M. Sefchick
  
  All rights reserved
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To my friends at the Hiller Memorial Library
  
  This one is for you...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
  Late May 1820
  
  The night had been nothing short of a major scandal. That much was certain.
  For once, Frost was eternally grateful that he had not been a part of it, able
  to watch the events unfold from the edges of the ballroom in silence with the
  air of amused detachment that was his hallmark.
  
  He was the very last person on Earth who would have thought that his old
  friend Lord Nicholas Rosemont, the estimable "Bloody" Duke of Candlewood,
  wo