Quest

About the Book

Gene Lovell was born into the Great Depression where economics narrowed his choices to beans and biscuits at meal time. A predatory aunt narrowed his sexual menu to cunnilingus. Is he forever doomed to eat limas and pussy, or can he shed those fetters for richer paths in a forest of infinite possibilities? Does one’s selection of friends and companions influence his predilections? Suppose he marries a celebrated whore? Will he continue the behaviors his environmental exposures have dictated? Will the goals of his life be affected by a dramatic late-life experimental robotic surgery and his post-operative care givers, as well as the death of his life-long partner? Quest explores the answers to how far what we do defines who we are.

About the Author

Gene Lovell was a broker for John C. Legg (now Legg Mason) in the late fifties when that firm, an industry expert in insurance stocks, led a successful fight to seize control of New Amsterdam Casualty Insurance Co., giving him insight into what a ?takeover? is all about.

A well-known portrait painter and successful author of six other novels, Lovell lives quietly on the Eastern Shore with Jacquelyn Amos, his wife of fifty-three years, fighting boredom and cancer.