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eBook Category: Romance
eBook Description: The Oedipus Syndrome is a series of five eBook Novels.
Prologue: Oedipus is a man who, at the behest of others, follows the course of his life vaulting himself towards self-destruction. His life script is apparent to every one but him. Although he walks in blindness, he is nonetheless a man of super courage, outstanding nobility, and high-hearted intensions; In spite of his merits, both his virtues and defects conspire with fate against him. While he may be ignorant of his unnatural situation, while he may see, at the end of his career or life, what has happened to him, he may die never knowing that he denied himself the right granted by the Gods, his natural passage of life, which is due every human being who has lived before me and who will come after me.
Sophocles: Circa, 470 B.C. Theme of " Oedipus the King"--It is 1993 and Raf Frataleon, at the pinnacle of his career, is ready to retire as CEO of the family business, Frataleon, Inc., which his father had started right after the end of WWII. After the onset of his father's terminal illness, in 1975, he unwearyingly gives up his right to live a normal life, as other men do. Gullibly and naively he spends the better part of his adult life developing the business bringing it from a moderate aircraft after parts manufacturing company into the largest, most prestigious, family owned company of its kind in the world. Coincidental to his decision to retire comes the news of his mother's impeding death from a near life long illness. The tragic loss of his father three years before had left his mother as the sole owner of Frataleon, Inc. But that fact had never worried Raf. There had always been a spoken understanding between he and his parents that the fruits of his labor would always be his. After her death, every thing he had preserved and built upon would automatically be his. Unknown to him however, his much younger sister Nicole disagrees with that arrangement. What follows is her plot to disembowel her brother's inheritance and claim it as her own. How is he to save himself from a fate he could never have imagined could have happened? Can he come out of his misfortune intact? He finds that his strength to financially survive his unexpected reversal of fortunes comes from unexpected sources. Throughout the five eNovels, we follow Raf as he moves from his earliest childhood, into his traumatic years growing up and on through the trials and tribulations of his adult life. We watch as he prospers and approaches his mid-life. From that perspective, we understand the forces that, unknown to him, propel him, step by step, into his final situation.

eBook Publisher: 4 Points Press Publishing Company/4 Points Press Publishing Company, Published: 2001
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2003

Available eBook Formats [Secure Microsoft Reader - What's this?]: SECURE MICROSOFT READER FORMAT (468 KB] - Requires Microsoft Reader 2.1.1 for PCs, or Microsoft Reader 2.2.2 on Pocket PC 2002 handheld devices. Some older Pocket PCs can be upgraded. Learn More.
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Microsoft Reader ISBN: 1591180198

"The Oedipus Syndrome is an ambitious series of novels from first time fiction writer Maria Giusto. The novel explores the binds of loyalty, whether for good or for bad, that tie a family together. In her first two novels of The Oedipus Syndrome: Blind Intentions and Betrayed Innocence, the author introduces us to Raf Frataleon, who deftly presents us with the dynamics of his family and what he thinks his extreme loyalty to them might have cost him. It is rare that an author digs as deeply into a man's psyche as this author does almost tearing the main character apart leaving him to put himself back together again. Raf takes us with him on a journey of his life hardly traveled by men of lesser courage and fortitude than he possesses. He privies us to every facet of his life and lets us share in every part of his emotions. With the great intensity of a comic storyteller, you will laugh when he laughs. With the great sorrow of a holy man observing the decline of his followers, you will cry when he cries. With the openness of a bon vivant you will love as he loves, deeply, passionately and obsessively. Benevolent to a fault, you would yet pale at the depth of his hatred when he is crossed. Profound and enormous in its scope, his anger could bring him and his to destruction. Written with the intensity of his need to expose his inner self, the first novel, Blind Intentions let's Raf take a second look at his present life. The second novel, Betrayed Innocence, is in contrast to the first. In a flashback, we travel with him into his childhood where we share, in another time and another place, the events that write the foundation of his life-script. The first novels will keep you spellbound and you will want to meet Raf again in the upcoming third novel, a continuation of his ambitions and setbacks that dictate his life."--Publisher's Review