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The Chrysanthemum Garden - Price: $10.95
by Joseph Cowley, ISBN: 0-595-00173-4
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The Chrysanthemum Garden, originally published by Simon & Schuster, is about two people so real that as we watch them fall in love we feel we are entering the magic kingdom of the human heart. Mature human beings, neither is prepared for the unexpected moment of grace that wrenches them from the lives they assumed they would always live.
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Biography :
JOSEPH COWLEY was born on October 9, 1923. He graduated from Columbia University in 1947, interrupting his academic career to serve two and a half years with the Army Air Force during World War II. The last few months of service were spent overseas as a bombardier with the Eighth Air Force. He received his M.A. from Columbia in 1948 and taught English at Cornell University before entering sales. Most of his career was spent writing and editing material on sales and management for The Research Institute of America. Taking early retirement in 1982 to devote himself to fiction, he moved with his wife Ruth to Lebanon, Ohio, to be near the eldest of their four children and the two grandchildren existent at the time. They now have seven grandchildren: Jesse, Noah, Sarah, Samantha, Eliot, Sophia, and Sean, and live on Long Island.
Joseph Cowley is the author of the novels The Chrysanthemum Garden, Home by Seven, Landscape With Figures, Dust Be My Destiny, The House on Huntington Hill; the plays The Stargazers, Twin Bill, and A Jury of His Peers; a collection of shorter fiction called The Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories; and, with Robert Weisselberg, The Executive Strategist, An Armchair Guide to Scientific Decision-Making. His articles have appeared in trade and science journals, and his short stories in Prairie Schooner, New-Story, The Maryland Review, Ohio Short Fiction, and other literary journals and anthologies. He is currently writing a biography of John Adams for young adults, working on a sequel to the adventure novel Dust Be My Destiny, and also writing a futuristic thriller called Don’t Shoot--I’m Not the Enemy. On the back burner are another short novel, and another historical play, this one about Leo Tolstoy.
Book Review :
6/81 Helen Faye Rosenblum
The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Chrysanthem Garden offers a great deal of wisdom and beauty....The carefully observed moments bespeak eternities. Like the judiciousl employed title metaphor, the lives of these people are imbued with a pungent, sometimes spiky tenderness, and a beauty that lingers beyond all expectations.
10/18/81 Samuel Yellen Louisvlle, KY Courier Journal
Joseph Cowley avoids the pitfalls and, thanks to the sensitive eye, the perceptiveness, and the emotional ardor with which he endowed Morna, gives the story an intensity and an immediacy that involves us deeply with the three central characters.
8\2\81 Pamela Hoye
The San Diego Union
"The Chrysanthemum Garden" is not a sentimental story with a happy ending. It's a book about people and relationships and caring, giving the reader a quiet, unobtrusive look into the lives of two people time and love have brought together.
7/26/81 John Espey
L.A. Heral Examiner
Cowley commands a controlled, literate prose, well turned to handle the comic, ironic, and elegiac tones that inform this shapely probing of the human heart.
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