Gerard Charles Wilson

The Counterculture Goddess (Sixties Series, #4) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Prepublication review: Counterculture Goddess is a masterly exercise in weaving the many strands of history - religious, geographic, military, social, literary and political - into a novel. They were tumultuous times, and you've brought out the difficulties for many people, particularly faithful Catholics, in finding their way through them.

Anneke van Engelen strikes deep enmity in Gerda van den Donker by mocking her goddess beliefs. She becomes nasty and jealous of her best friend, Nienke Nijboer, whom she thinks handsome, personable James Williamson prefers. She is wrong. James prefers her. When Anneke and Nienke start university in Amsterdam in 1966, they meet Wolter Langbroek and Luuk Rietveld.

Against the backdrop of the 1960s sexual revolution and the turmoil left by the Second Vatican Council in Holland, Anneke's and Nienke's relationships evolve, Anneke with Wolter and Nienke with Luuk. They are drawn into the goddess movement, along with Gerda, whose hatred of Anneke has not cooled.

Anneke must resolve her two-timing with Wolter and gets a taste of it herself when Katja van Amstel, a former girlfriend of Wolter's, walks back into his life. Their lives are further complicated by Wolter's relationship, through his job as an economics advisor, with Roy Clark, whom Luuk suspects of being a CIA officer. By the end of 1967, the entanglement of relationships and the political intrigues become explosive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gerard Charles Wilson Publisher
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781876262532
• Artikelnr.: 74891645

Autorenporträt

After a lifetime working in the book business (mostly educational publishing) I now concentrate on my writing.

One of my formative experiences was living in Holland with my Dutch wife for two and a half years. On returning to Australia, I completed a major in Dutch Language and Literature before a master's degree in philosophy. My studies and immersion in another culture and language, together with my Catholic faith, form the biggest influences on my writing. But shaping those influences are my mother and father. One could not have more principled parents.

My master's thesis was on Edmund Burke whose thought permeates my writing. My preoccupations are social and cultural from a Catholic and (Burkean) conservative perspective. This reflects my acceptance of the Catholic idea of the reciprocal relationship between faith and reason.

My favourite fiction authors are Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Evelyn Waugh. Evelyn Waugh's style and mastery of English have been my biggest influence not in vain, I hope. My favourite modern non-fiction author is philosopher Roger Scruton. I spend my leisure time reading and occasionally walking along the nearby shores of Port Phillip Bay. I love opera, musicals, and the ballet (The Nutcracker is my favourite.) I enjoy fifties rock 'n' roll and forties big band. Mozart is my favourite classical composer, but I am acquiring a liking for Bach.

My novels are in the genre of the 'Catholic novel'. They are in the style of Catholic novelists Evelyn Waugh, Grahame Greene, and Morris West. I deal with similar political, philosophical, and moral issues. The difference from general fiction is the assumed philosophical framework. Most modern fiction assumes a materialist framework while the Catholic novel assumes a natural law framework (See the 'Catholic Novel' page on my website.) Finally, there is always a romantic content in my stories. Love relationships are an incisive way of exploring the human person.