In this vivid portrait of G. I. Gurdjieff, Fritz Peters goes back to the 1920s to recall the four boyhood years he spent in France at Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. Peters tells how the Master used every situation in the...
"Largely focused on the proverbial war of the sexes, with enough suspense and brilliant analysis to satisfy anyone familiar with Peters' earlier outstanding novels." - NY TIMES BOOK REVIEWSet in the 1950s, The Descent asks the question, "Where a...
"The very material of suspense. Mr. Peters has done a thrilling piece of work, which this reader, once having begun it, could not put down." - Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize Winner "Not so much composed as forced out of the writer by the need to put do...