The Adventures of Mr Marigold - Softcover

Tobias, Michael Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0927379201 ISBN 13: 9780927379205

Publisher: Zorba Press, 2016

Synopsis

Michael Charles Tobias — in this colossal comic novel of 625,000 words — has given us a masterpiece of insight about our lives and troubled times. Through his idealistic hero Murillo Marigold and his earthy sidekick Sannazaro, Tobias meditates on everything that matters: poetry, art, philosophy, alternative technologies, environmentalism, human wrongs, animal rights, sustainable living, and utopias future and past. And what style! Passage after passage of inspired prose, from a mind on fire that sees every moment and encounter as hilarious, holy, and unique. The heart of the book is the author’s deeply personal sublime vision: the sacredness of all living beings, the reverence for life, the passionate commitment to social and environmental change. This enormous, challenging beatific vision that reminds us who we are — and points the way to what the new world could one day be — makes Mr Marigold a modern classic, at once entertaining, nourishing, revolutionary, and profoundly wise.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Charles Tobias is the author of nearly 50 books, many hundreds of essays, and the writer, director, and/or producer of some 170 films. He is probably best known for his novel, The Adventures of Mr Marigold. Tobias lives with his life-long partner and wife, the prolific ecologist, explorer, author, filmmaker, photographer, musician and philanthropist, Jane Gray Morrison, whose own books and films include such works as God’s Country: The New Zealand Factor, “A Day in the Life of Ireland,” “Antarctica: The Last Continent,” the ten-hour dramatic miniseries, “Voice of the Planet,” Donkey: The Mystique of Equus Asinus, the PBS feature film trilogy, “Mad Cowboy,” “No Vacancy,” and “Hotspots,” the coffee table work, Sanctuary: Global Oases of Innocence, Why Life Matters: Fifty Ecosystems From the Heart & Mind, and – as Goodwill Ambassador to Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park – the film “Yasuní – A Meditation on Life” that premiered at the United Nations Rio+20 Summit.

About this edition

• Publisher: Zorba Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0927379201
• ISBN 13: 9780927379205
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 828