Unmailed Letters To a Married Woman
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About the Book
Theme parks today build these monstrous roller-coasters & give them intimidating names like "Cyclone," "Hurricane" & "Colossus." They scare you & ask you to test your courage for their ride. Well, if they really wanted to scare you with the most terrifying & awesome experience in human life, they should name their ride "Love."
UNMAILED LETTERS is modern, blunt & powerful. The book is about a woman struggling to extricate herself from a drug abusing husband & the man who falls in love with her. It is not a book for everybody. Millions of us 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 & loss/recovery.
Pursuit is fraught with both great expectation & frustration with those expectations unmet. Ups & 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 & loving, to desires & 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. Tell me what you think." From some, the book triggered uncomfortable feelings from their own experience/the lives of their friends, & had to put it down. Others got as far as the pain in recovery - & recovery is painful. Those who finished it found new hope. The book, & life for those who face it, has a happy ending.
Shall we step on the roller-coaster?
About the Author
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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.