Celebration Author:Mary Lee Settle London 1969. She first sees him in the Reading Room of the British Museum when she pauses at Natural Hisoty on her way to Folklore--she being Teresa, a widowed American anthropologist, an he Ewen, a Scottish geologist recovering from the malarial fever he caught in Africa. The novel also tells the stories of their friends---Noel, a homosexual ... more »English aristocrat and his Hong Kong Love, Pius, the six-foot-nine Dinka Jesuit, in love with God, Artemesia Ambler, a sexually subversive editor and her entourage of bent boys, Beverly Evans-Thomas an ex-colonial civil servant who loves his garden and the memory of the martyred Charles I, Zephyr, a Middle Easterner as light as her name, always ready for love and as comic relief, Frank Proctor, the CIA agent who loves Teresa and understands nothing. One of the group has killed, one has nearly died, one has lived with death all his life.Places as varied as the Great African Rift, Hong Kong, the Sudan, Malaya, India, Turkey, Scotland and New York. Mary Lee Settle the author was winner of the National Book Award for her novel "Blood Tie"« less