A clear, beautiful, outrageously funny story about a Boston Irishman’s love for the most spectacular Yankee murderess since Lizzie Borden: Althea Stanton. As X.J. Muldoon goes off on an unforgettable sexual and spiritual journey through Boston, it becomes the telling of a cosmic event "no less significant than the Crucifixion: the divorce of Adam and Eve within our souls."

Part political thriller, part treatise on the fragility of human interaction, this fine novel from the Argentinean-born Alonso offers a penetrating look into the struggle against oppression, both political and personal....with a smart, conversational narrative, Alonso presents an intriguing examination of a revolution's smaller stories. Swift and engaging right to the last. --Kirkus Reviews

This book establishes the hypothesis that there are profound links between John Milton's «rule of charity» as described in The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce and St. Augustine's exegesis in De Doctrina Christiana - as it pertains to the Christian man and the primary factor that should determine his earthly actions. The author stresses the point that Milton charac- terizes the Christian-wife-prototype as a «thing to be used» by her husband, which is founded in the Augustinian exegesis. Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes are discussed as exempla of Milton's theory.