Newlove, Donald, Avon Books, 1979
Newlove, Donald: Eternal Life – An Astral Love Story (1979, Avon Books, Kunto: K3)"In Eternal Life, Ernest Waters, wine-crazed writer turned serious spiritual pilgrim, travels on the astral plane where he is guided by Knut Hamsun, visits Thomas Eddison in the spirit world of Menlo Park, N. J. meets Walt Whitman atop the World Trade Center, and searches for his long-lost, long-legged child bride, the mysterious, alluring Cynara, supplier of dreams, daydreams, pipedreams, and undreamed of copulations, whom he refuses to be parted from - even by death"Donald Newlove was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1928, and currently lives in New York City's Greenwich Village. As a reporter, book reviewer, and short story writer, his work appeared in Esquire, New York Magazine, Evergreen Review, and The Saturday Review. His first novel, The Painter Gabriel (1970), was hailed by Time Magazine as "one of the best fictional studies of madness, descent, and purification that any American has written since Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Newlove is the author of several other novels, a series of books on the art of writing, and the critically acclaimed memoir, Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers (1981).