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When wealthy Milanese merchant Antonio Vecchi dies accidentaly at an early age in the 1960's, he leaves behind him a legacy of deception. Thirty years later in the United States, Antonio's family is enmeshed in a web of secrets that peerpetuates his deceit.
Antonio's duaghter, Marianna Vecchi Marin, lives in her own fantasy world. She romanticizes her relationship with her philandering husband, Keith, and has disconnected from her two children. Matthew an eighteen year old high school senior, has not yet told his parents that he has no intention of going to college. Sizteen year old Kaitlin is showing troubling signs of morning sickness.
Is Marianna's suburban life as ideal as she imagines it to be, or is it fraught with falsehoods that only be dispelled by revealing family secrets?
Set in the wealthy northern suburbs of Westchester County and in New York City, Chasing Cobwebs spans the lives of three generations of Italian-American women.
The contrast in upbringing between the grandmother, Sophia, who was brought up in a poverty stricken post World War II village in the mountains overlooking Naples and her two daughters, is striking.
Her eldest daughter, Annamaria, a renowned opera singer lives in an east side penthouse in Manhattan and Marianna, the suburban homemaker, enjoys a three acre estate and Italian style garden..all part of Marianna's "perfect" l | |  | | Cloud of Chaos Planet of Light
"Cloud of Chaos Planet of Light" tells the story of Wolf, a trained astro-physicist who suffers from schizophrenia. Often dillusional, Wolf is visited by a strange creature from a distant planet who tells him that the scientists from Marrias, a civilization of human-like beings that is 1000 years in advance of Earth, has located a massive cloud that will soon descend on Earth and suffocate every living creature. Wolf must be convinced that the creature is not just an illusion before he can join the Marriasts who have come here to rescue humanity.
Excerpts: from Chapter One, "Illusion or Reality."
"Wolf Meuller worke up slowly from a resless sleep. His lips moved inaudibly and his hands trembled with fear as he sank lowerer into his leather lounge chair. He heard the voice saying that a poisonous cloud would soon snuff out all life on Earth.....
He shouldn't be back for a while, Wolf thought, while groping his way through the now darkened corridor. He futively entered the living room and reached for the light switch that would turn on the small lamp next to his chair. Instead, he pressed the switch to the large st |
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