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Paradise Lust is a firsthand account about the seductive perils of our time. The action revolves around Albrecht, a tradition-bound Austrian nobleman, and those who cause him woe: his mother Istenne, whose idealized antics scandalized Europe decades ago; his daughter, Princess Stephanie, whose worldly mischief is creating no less of a contemporary stir; and his cousin, the narrator, whose Americanized ways offend every tenet of Albrecht's existence. Underlying the action is Albrecht's conviction that humanity's unbridled ways can still have the same incalculable consequences in our day as the loss of Paradise by Adam and Eve. Whether set in a dilapidated chateau at the foot of the Pyrenees, in a burgundy-red studio on Manhattan's Upper East Side, or at an ocean-side cottage in Laguna Beach, Paradise Lust carries a special message for those seeking to maximize their share of pleasure in life. The author has succeeded in reaching a depth of feeling and expression that few writers even know about much less arrive at. --Lewis H. Lapham, Editor Emeritus, Harper's Magazine Kolowrat's combination of American and European sensibilities speaks in a frank voice to audiences on both sides of the Atllantic. --Alice Pistkova, Prague Post

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Ernest Kolowrat was born in Prague in 1935. After attending schools in the former Czechoslovakia, Turkey and England, he graduated from Yale and served as a junior Naval officer with the U.S. Pacific Fleet. During the decade of the 1960s, he was successively employed as world affairs editor for Scholastic Magazines in New York, director of information for the American Institute for Foreign Study in Greenwich, Connecticut, and director of 10th Anniversary Programs of the Peace Corps in Washington. Since 1971, he has been a freelance writer, publicist and film maker. He is the author of Hotchkiss: A Chronicle of an American School. Ernest Kolowrat is married to Barbara W. Newell, former President of Wellesley College and U. S. Ambassador to UNESCO.

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