Of Greeks Virgins and Tectonic Jive

This is a novel (potboiler) about a relationship between a middle-aged writer named Alexander Cassidy and Tosca a young female student at Santa Barbara City College which overlooks the harbor. Living on a Chinese junk in the harbor Cassidy is a disciplined writer who finds himself experiencing the most voluptuous lifestyle imaginable. Central to the story is a Greek restaurant/taberna near the harbor where the proprietor Satyri Papanikolas dances with dinner tables clamped in his teeth sucks up ouzo and retsina and has a Zorba-like love affair with all of his dancing customers. Lurking in the background is the dark secret of a forbidden past relationship which threatens to destroy Alexander Cassidy and all those around him. </P>