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Lawson, James was born on December 8, 1938 in New York, New York, United States. Son of Marcel James and Renata May Hyams Gwynne.
("One afternoon in February, Michael Movius, a thirty-six ...)
"One afternoon in February, Michael Movius, a thirty-six year old neurotic who had suffered a mild nervous breakdown and was recuperating at a small hospital in upstate New York, transported Edward Ortega, an unloved attendant at the hospital, from the physical world to an unused recess of his mind." Thus begins a strange and unusual book in a genre all its own, the story of an ordinary man who must assume the mantle of a god. To accommodate the people he brings into his mind from the real world, he must create a world within his imagination, make the sun rise and set, make rain nourish the land, create an environment that can feed and house the inhabitants of his mind, even lay down laws of conduct and morality. But events in the real world constantly impinge on the world within. And the people in Movius' mind, a microcosm of a normal community, influence the world without. Movius switches back and forth between man and god, incompetence and omnipotence, pettiness and profundity. Despite its epic scope and philosophical underpinnings, exploring the farthest reaches of the imagination, "The Reluctant God" is an entertaining and eminently readable story of real people trying to cope with an unreal world.
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(The universe of The Copley Chronicles is as rich and vari...)
The universe of The Copley Chronicles is as rich and varied as any 19th Century magnum opus but with a sensibility unheard of in the literature of that period. From the mysterious immigrant, Olga, who lands in the household of the wealthy New Yorker, Benjamin Copley, a saga begins that takes the Copleys through forty years of love and death, betrayal and redemption, domestic joys and sexual depravities, suicide and revenge, incest and resurrection. A domestic drama of epic proportions, The Copley Chronicles is a landmark in the exploration of the perversities of coming-of-age.
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(Most love stories are about people who not only love but ...)
Most love stories are about people who not only love but like, respect and appreciation one another. Forgeries of the Heart is the exception. Its protagonist, a wealthy, sophisticated banker, with a seemingly ideal marriage, falls for a woman he despises, who hates what he loves, whose entire life is dedicated to devaluing what he values most. It is a commentary not only on the unexpected, almost lunatic byways of love, but on the fragility of happiness.
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Lawson, James was born on December 8, 1938 in New York, New York, United States. Son of Marcel James and Renata May Hyams Gwynne.
University de Paris, France, 1960. Bachelor, Boston University, 1961.
Copywriter, McConn-Marschalk, New York City, 1962-1963; copywriter, J. Walter Thompson, New York City, 1963-1964; copywriter, Al Paul Lefton, Philadelphia, 1964-1966; vice president, copy group supervisor, Doyle Dane Bernbach, New York City sr vice-president, director creative services, Doremus, New York City, 1966-1978; copywriter, Scali McCabe Sloves, 1980-1981; vice president, creative director, Cunningham and Walsh, Los Angeles, 1981-1982; senior vice president, creative director, Doyle Dane Bernbach Needham, New York City, 1982-1993.
("One afternoon in February, Michael Movius, a thirty-six ...)
(The universe of The Copley Chronicles is as rich and vari...)
(Most love stories are about people who not only love but ...)
Married Katharine Frances Rieke, December 28, 1968. Children: Victoria Zoe, Nicholas Dylan Foster.