Cobalt Blue - Softcover

Payne, Peggy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780998082 ISBN 13: 9781780998084

Publisher: Roundfire Books, 2013

Synopsis

 

 
A novel for courageous readers and seekers, COBALT BLUE is a turbulent, gorgeous ride into sacred sex, compulsion, obsession, unmentionable attractions, and ultimate empowering redemption. Burned out from work and a break-up, Andie Branson, a 38-year-old commercial artist in a small Southern town, hungers for whatever will force her out of her familiar limits. She has a sudden, shocking religious encounter, kundalini rising, the physical experience of tantric enlightenment.

When this mysterious, seductive yet terrifying brush with the divine catapults Andie into compulsive sexual behavior she must find what has seized her and stop these new disturbing cravings.

Andie's struggle to regain control of her mind and body is complicated by a too-close connection with her glamorous parents, especially her magnetically attractive father, and by working closely with a bigoted U.S. Senator, the man who for her personifies evil.

Her story ranges from the elegant golf town of Pinehurst, North Carolina, to the raucous and shadowy byways of pre-Katrina New Orleans, with pauses in India, Ecuador, and other exotic locations.
 

About this title

About the Author:

A New York Times Notable novelist, Peggy Payne is the author of Sister India and Revelation, among others. She lives near Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and is married to a psychologist who specializes in clinical hypnosis. She is a gardener, kayaker, traveler, and of course: reader.

Review:

Cobalt Blue is entrancing and unsettling, a novel that gets at the marrow of sexual and spiritual experience. Peggy Payne is one of our most gifted writers.

--Angela Davis-Gardner


Gorgeously lyrical, Cobalt Blue ventures into dark psychological territory before the light finally rises. This is a bold story, dealing with frightening hypersexuality, unwanted religious experience, and hard-won transcendence. With its Jungian underpinnings and exotic settings, this beautifully written novel will appeal to anyone fascinated by boundaries, taboos, obsession, and mystery.
                Anna Jean Mayhew
                The Dry Grass of August

A zesty, well paced read. Quite entertaining and rich in detail.
                Oscar Hijuelos
                Pulitzer Prize Winner
                Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Cobalt Blue is an engrossing story of the spiritual awakening of a painter who becomes so obsessed with sex that she nearly loses her sanity. Payne strips away the barriers to female passion; she entices the reader to vicariously experience the artist's hot and sensual fire            
                Barbara Hand Clow
                The Liquid Light of Sex

About this edition

• Publisher: Roundfire Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1780998082
• ISBN 13: 9781780998084
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312