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In the Time of Man: A Novel, Ch. 20 (Final Chapter)
(Author’s note: Chapters 19 and 20, the last chapter, were both posted on the same day. Consequently, 19 is linked in the column to the right of this.)
After he had cleared security at LAX, Elliot Anders found a relatively quiet spot and called Phil Traynor’s parents in Illinois. Phil’s mother, Elaine, who was only in [...]
In the Time of Man: A Novel, Ch. 19
The road was long and tiring but Elliot Anders had nowhere else to go. After he had lost contact with Phil Traynor in Africa, Elliot had called both the U.S. State Department and several African nation embassies in Washington in an attempt to get a special exemption to travel to the continent. None, however, was [...]
In the Time of Man: A Novel, Ch. 18
Around the end of August, Clint Peeler always got his first sense of the coming winter. The south wind of summer across the high plains abruptly shifted and cool air cascaded down off the Front Range of the Rockies and weakened the strength of the sun. A visitor might never notice the difference but it [...]
In the Time of Man: A Novel, Ch. 17
Phil Traynor had stopped taking notes and doing interviews for his research project on the Dogon. There no longer seemed to be much point to his work. About four weeks previously, Elliot Anders had called to relate his experience with journalists when he tried to deliver the Dogon data. His professor’s allusions in that conversation [...]
In the Time of Man: A Novel, Ch. 16
They had been watching her for more than a year. Every six or seven weeks, they noticed that she left work on Friday evening and made a long drive down to Bisbee, near the border, to see her widowed mother. In the afternoon, her husband and the children drove ahead of her to beat commuter [...]
In the Time of Man: A Novel, Ch. 15
Becky Acuna was surprised to see Elliot Anders barging in on the end of a news conference that had just been concluded by a professional athlete but the last 24 hours had been markedly unusual compared to her usual daily life in journalism. She knew Anders’ book on the Great Pyramid was on most bestseller [...]
In the Time of Man: A Novel, Ch. 14
After lunch, Walter and Ann Robbins had plans to go into Grand Junction and stroll the pedestrian mall downtown, hang out in a coffee shop, and look for a new bookstore they had been told had just opened. Walter was hoping to raise his energy level and get a bit reinvigorated instead of constantly sitting [...]
In the Time of Man: A Novel, Ch. 13
Her night in the jail was sleepless after Becky made a call to Gene and had to explain to him that she was incarcerated on suspicion of murder. As patient and understanding of a man as her husband had proved to be through the years, Gene Acuna had now listened to his wife tell him [...]
In the Time of Man: A Novel, Ch. 12
The book tour was a grind. Elliot Anders did not remember the cities any more than he did the endless string of superfluous questions by television and newspaper interviewers. Generally, they treated him as an oddity, a man whose science was not believed to be disciplined and whose conclusions were dubious. His mind, subsequent to [...]
In the Time of Man: A Novel, Ch. 11
Long before Becky got downtown to meet Mike Burke, he had put down three double scotches. She knew there had been a tremble in her voice when she had finally spoken with him and that Burke was undoubtedly worried. He had agreed to meet in a restaurant at a halfway point but Becky had insisted [...]