Rites of Passage Author:Robert Clark Rites of Passage explores realms of consciousness steeped in myth and brittle with reality in a journey traversing a vast landscape of human adventure and psychic peril. The summer before the assassination of John Kennedy, Richard MacCairill enters flight school at an air base near Phoenix Arizona. The young officer possesses many trinkets ... more »associated with success -- wealth, a sports car, a future of promise. Richard's material fortune is secondary to his bisexual, tangled involvement with the two people he loves deeply, his fiance and best friend. However, the most compelling and disturbing feature of Richard's life is a recurring dream, growing in horror and physical debilitation with each iteration. The dream masks something so frightening he cannot drag it into memory. Yet, should he fail to confront this nocturnal apparition, death clearly awaits. To unearth these buried experiences, Richard must rely on a past acquaintance to lead him through the cleverly crafted, manipulative wall of repression. It is a quest which nearly destroys both as the barrier shatters to reveal the truth and leaves Richard teetering on the brink of madness, homicide, and self destruction.« less