The White Cliff

With power and emotion Edward Schwartz gives the readers in <I>The White Cliff</I> the impassioned story of a broken friendship of two men--a writer Martin Bell and a scientist Harold Flint.</p><p>They are both trapped by their own contradictions: ambition and fear desire and obligation self-confirmation and responsibility.</p><p>Woven in a tapestry of inner voices of his heroes Schwartz takes us from a movie-studio to a scientific laboratory; from a hospital's OR to the International symposium; from the church to the KGB office in Russia.</p><p>Among personages whose lives are being entwined into fates of two main protagonists there are the following:</p><li>Dr. Ann Bell Martin's wife who tries to reshape her life beyond the family triangular;<li>Bill Acheson Martin's friend and a movie director who tries to perforate Martin's screenplay-confession into a piece of art;<li>Margaret Dixon Ann's sister and a talented journalist who begins to realize that articles of faith that have shaped her life are far too simple;<li>Dr. Joe Smith a gifted scientist who has given up the battle with morality and does not stop even in treason to satisfy his desires.</li></p><p>All these personages and many others create a colorful pattern in the kaleidoscope of human life where and the world of science and the world of literature are only two colorful stones among myriads others.</p>