Matter of Paradise Book

This hardback 1976 BCA (Book Club Associates) was published in association with the original publisher Wm. Colllins & Son. Co. Ltd. Story: Hobie Milne, 42-year-old music critic of a San Francisco paper, didn't want to think about the 25th Reunion of The Mather School's Class of 1950. Hobie didn't really care what had happened to those old classmates of his-until they began to die, one by one. Like boys everywhere, they had left Dr. Knox's prestigious Puritan enclave and gone off into the 'real world' to find their individual destinies: doctor, architect, stockbroker, diplomat, actor, corporate executive, musician, airline pilot, critic. Now, 25 years later, did any of them have anything in common? Nothing but Mather, sudden death - and the 'matter of Paradise'. Hobie himself is most reluctant to think back on Mather days. He wants only to continue his pointless existence as a psychological drop-out: divorced, isolated from family and friends, trapped professionally on a second-rate newspaper, contentedly dependent on a girl a dozen years his junior with whom he shares a houseboat in Sausalito Bay. But inevitably, inescapably, Hobie finds himself drawn once again into the 'matter of Paradise', there to face the forbidden secret of his class - and, for the first time in his life, the truth about himselfRead More