Alan Harvey

Analyssa: the Seduction of a Woman on the Spiritual Path Alan Harvey

An accident of reflection in the window of a restaurant joins the eyes of Matt and Analyssa. They fulfill each other's dreams. Or do they only reflect to each other their own desires? But they exist in a real world, a world of money and politics and protest. Here is Brandon Cockburn driven to violent dissent. Here is Leslie Emerson, New York Times reporter extraordinaire. And the worlds of Jack and Delphy, and others beyond and outside them. Real, heroic, craven, tragic, noble, and some deeply internal and spiritual worlds. The perfect becomes the poignant becomes the painful becomes again the perfect. These lives and those others in the spaces between them are clear and convincing one moment, then like a reflection, they reform with a change of light. Analyssa is told in poetry and prose and prayers. It is charming, romantic and spiritually and politically aware.