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Oddity

A Novel
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This dramatic philosophical novel spans more than half the twentieth century in Albuquerque and Los Angeles. The story centres on Hana Nicholas, a liberated woman ahead of her time who is the centre of a circle of devoted friends in Albuquerque's North Valley. Her eccentric world comes to a sudden end in the early 1950s, and Lowell Briscoe, her young protege, is haunted for the rest of his life by the rude destruction of Hana and her home. From New Mexico Christmas celebrations to the riots that shook Los Angeles in 1992, from psychotherapy to the courtroom, The Oddity is a heartfelt tribute to the ecumenical mixture of cultures that makes New Mexico unique. It is also a timely examination of issues that concern many Americans at the dawn of the twenty-first century, bringing to life conflicts between individual rights and institutionalised justice, spirituality and conformity, love, and fear.
V. B. Price, a University of New Mexico alumnus, is a journalist and the author of several books that are available from UNM Press. He lives in Albuquerque.
""The Oddity" is a heartfelt tribute to the ecumencial mixture of cultures that makes New Mexico unique. It is also a timely examination of issues that concern many Americans at the dawn of the twenty-first century, bringing to life conflicts between individual rights and institutionalized justice, spirituality and conformity, love and fear." "V.B. Price has crafted a wonderful novel that the title aptly reflects. The protagonist is at odds with the world and himself, and rightly so. Price explores the experience of living in a society where everything seems relative, and it is diffucult to discover any meaningful truth."
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