From the R.M. Dolin novel
The Dangling Conversation – SUMMARY
One hides from life, the other afraid to live; two strangers with nothing
in common other than the park bench they share.
Each evening KYLE (50’s) sits on his quiet park bench agonizing over how to save his on-again/off-again relationship with NADIA while avoiding becoming the government’s fall-guy for a software glitch rendering all food and drugs approved in the last ten years suspect. ISABELLE (30’s), is everything Kyle’s not, she’s young, impulsive, emotionally driven, and scared; scared of her abusive Ex, of having to restart all over again, and most of all, scared of love. When Isabelle invades Kyle’s quiet sanctuary, it sets off a series of deeply probing conversations about life, love, and the incredible complexities of just getting by.
THE DANGLING CONVERSATION is a contemporary story set on any bench, in any park, anywhere in the world. Written completely in dialog, the novel weaves together the struggles of two ordinary people doing their best to make sense of their imperfect lives.
As a former research engineer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and someone who has endured being falsely accused by the government, Dr. Dolin is qualified to write this story. In addition to publishing over 100 technical papers, he has written five novels, two nonfiction books, one cookbook, and a plethora of poems. Dr. Dolin’s novel writing method is to use poetry for character development and as a springboard for storytelling, in that sense, it is possible to enjoy his stories in both novel and poetry form.
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