The Fargus technique

by David Mangum

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0690289642
• ISBN13: 9780690289640
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Crowell
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

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This is a story that will make you laugh out loud, and also sad and thoughtful. With driving force and a delicate yet realistic sense of spontaneity and humor, the author presents a conflict for anyone who has a tast for heaven but must choose between limbo and hell.Henry Fargus is a gynecologists, living with his dull wife Alice in Mississippi. Tiring of his practice and the endless routine of yeast infections, he gets a small research grant to develop the Fargus technique. Still beleagurered though, Henry calls his old college friend, Arnold Weathermore, a black psychiatrist, to suggest going on a fishing trip together. Their friendship is one of gentle but mordant humor, with a deep sense of comradship. For many years Arnold has posed as a white man because of his light skin. They set off together in Arnold's airplane, only to run into a storm and crash-land safely on a lake deep in the Mississippi forests. Once on land, through a series of confrontations, they are brought to a strange, tiny village isolated in the woods. In this raw, crepuscular setting, their fate falls into the hands of Robert Collins, a madman; Ernie, a behemoth of a man; Anna, the sad beautiful and mysterious woman of the island; and a handful of other villagers. Under the threat of being killed by Robert Collins, strains of self-recognition emerge in Henry and Arnold. The tension reaches the breaking point and all must make their choices in their life and death struggle, and in a harrowing and surprising climax, the story is resolved with brilliant insight into the condition of Henry and Arnold's lives, that of the villagers, and contemporary man.