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Unmailed Letters To a Married Woman

by Mr. X

186 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #01-0332; ISBN 1-55212-930-6; US$19.00, C$21.00, EUR15.50, £11.00

A masterful blend of letters and poetry giving a very intimate insight to forbidden relationship.

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About the book      About the author      Sample excerpt      Reviews      Catalogue info

About the Book Theme parks today build these monstrous roller-coasters and give them intimidating names like "Cyclone," "Hurricane" and "Colossus." They try and scare you and ask you to test your courage for their ride. Well, if they really wanted to scare you with the most terrifying and awesome experience in human life, they should name their ride "Love." UNMAILED LETTERS is modern, blunt and powerful. The book is about a woman struggling to extricate herself from a drug abusing husband and the man who falls in love with her. It is not a book for everybody. Millions of us, men and women alike, have had what we believe to be great loves; ecstasy we've never known before only to sink into loss's despair. So, UNMAILED LETTERS is informally divided into three parts: pursuit, capture and loss/recovery. Pursuit is fraught with both great expectation and frustration with those expectations unmet. Ups and downs, just like everybody else's relationship. Capture is best described by the line in the book, "I haven't written much poetry lately. I feel like I'm living it." One critic called the book's poetry "a portrait of the male psyche." It is the recovery portion that makes this book valuable. Mona Golabek, host of NPR's The Romantic Hours said of the poem, Human Experience, read on her program the week of Sept. 23, 2002, "It was so moving, such a testament to the human condition, to love and loving, to desires and longing. I thought it was exquisite." I say the book is not for everybody. New writers are pests! We seek validation for our work, first from friends, then acquaintances, then everybody we meet. "Read this. Read this. Tell me what you think." From some, the book triggered uncomfortable feelings from their own experience or the lives of their friends, and had to put it down. Others got as far as the pain in recovery - and recovery is painful whether a paper cut on your finger or deep emotional trauma - and put it down. Those who finished it found new hope. The book, and life for those who face it, has a happy ending. Shall we step on the roller-coaster?

About the Author Author Photo by Lasky      Art Noble is a "Mr. X." Mr. X is any of a million men who could have written this book. It is a common story, but treated here in a uniquely powerful fashion.      Noble grew up in Key West where he lived four years in the Hemingway Home. On moving, he acquired a lamp from the home, possibly one that illuminated Papa's work. Any "magic" asssociated with the lamp did not reveal itself during Noble's academic years. Today, his poetry is published in various magazines and journals, as were his technical writings in the past. He still writes under the lamp.      Noble holds a BS in Ocean Engineering and an MBA. Like Robert Service and scores of other poets and authors, he has acquired, held, quit and been fired from many "jobs" ranging from commercial diver in the offshore oil field to Vice President of Ocean Engineering with a small corporation. Noble appeared as a bit actor in movies and made commercials. After his participation in the H-Bomb salvage and the first 600 foot dive, he made an appearance on the Today Show and his photograph is in National Geographic.      To validate this book, Noble chatted with truck drivers, merchant seamen, large corporate executives and small business men. Outside of the locker room where braggadocio reigns supreme and behind our walls, our feelings are pretty much alike. Whether pushing big rigs or pencils, wearing hard-hats or homburgs, guys are guys.      Noble believes there is common identification with UNMAILED LETTERS TO A MARRIED WOMAN. The frustrations of men in dealing with women are common and much like the frustrations of women in dealing with men.

Reviews

"A romance novel for men!"
Abundance Magazine

"In reading Unmailed Letters, I completely forgot my task (as editor); I became so engrossed in the story I forgot to look for mistakes and found myself turning pages feverishly..."
Barbara Lowell, Biloxi Sun Herald

"These letters can be a remarkable source of hope for anyone caught in any similar situation."
Rev. Dale G. Kent

Sample Excerpt

(Editor's note: The book begins 1/19/93 and ends 8/11/95.)

1/2/94

Dearest Donna,
   My sadness abated and resentment moved in. I'm a little ticked I haven't heard from you, particularly after the intimacy we shared last week. Are you angry with me? Are you ashamed? What's going on?
   I feel like a boss diddled secretary, where he keeps promising to divorce his wife to marry her and it never happens. If you have made your decision to file and leave, then do it. If things have changed, then let me know. I'm really easy. You have never lied to me. So whatever you tell me, I generally accept. All I've asked is you tell me.
   I'm no longer in the way between you and him. You made your decision to leave because of his abuse and deceit and your self respect. The longer you stay, the more difficult it becomes for you to leave. I have patience, but it needs padding. Is this what I will look forward to? Our relationship is built on our communication. When you stop talking, I can't listen. I find it hard to believe you cannot find time to pick up the phone and leave me a message.
   Is there such a thing as caring too much? If there is, I guess I do. And I care for me too as I wander this limbo land - the purgatory of my mind. We keep hearing all about women in this predicament. I wonder how many men fall into this trap?

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