Pearl City Control Theory, a novel of city Buddha-mind walking, love and breaking free

By Karen Lynn Allen

A novel of city Buddha-mind walking, love,and breaking freeWhen Sara's husband, Mark, goes to the East Coast for law school, Sara stays behind in her beloved San Francisco. Their marriage will be BCDR... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967178401
• ISBN13: 9780967178400
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Cabbages and Kings Press
• Length: 303 Pages

Customer Reviews

A Novel Look at Life and Relationships

This is a really good book. The author tells of several months in the life of a young, upwardly mobile professional woman and her relationships - with husband, with bosses, with employees, and with family and friends. She views these relationships from a unique perspective, but one that provides a unifying theme throughout the book. The subtle - and sometimes not-so-subtle - ways by which people control and dominate each other are extraordinarily well described. I learned more about my own relationships from this book than I have from several self-help books, and I wasn't even trying to!The characters are well drawn, true to life, and generally sympathetic. We feel for Sarah as she goes through the vicissitudes of her life, and understand why she thinks and acts as she does. Her development as a person during the course of the narrative is remarkable (well, if it wasn't, there wouldn't have been a book to write) but it also makes sense within the context of the events of her life. Sarah's interactions with bosses and subordinates in the business world are absolutely dead-on. In fact, the book's strongest point is the realism of the people and their interpersonal relationships, something rare in today's fiction. But make no mistake - the heroine, and she is that, is an engaging and likeable person whose eventual triumph is both well deserved and completely satisfying. I've read it twice now, and will no doubt read it several more times over the next few years. I recommend it highly.

Witty wisdom walking San Francisco

I haven't read very many books about American women in middle management where the heroine actually thinks about her work, thinks about its consequences, thinks about how her work encourages or discourages her own personal growth. Pearl City Control Theory does all that--in an engaging and humorous way. While far from ignoring outside work issues like friendship, sex, and the pleasures of a wonderful walking city like San Francisco. Karen Allen has written a story of a woman waking up to her life, and waking up, and waking up--with help and distractions from a host of three dimensional, fascinating characters. It's a moving book, a funny one, and even an inspiring one. For those looking for popular fiction on the intelligent, distinctive level of an Alice Hoffman--with perhaps more pertinence to the average working woman's life--Pearl City Control Theory's a winner.

Compelling read

This book is a wonderful read. It is a fascinating story with interesting, believable characters that reads like mystery you can't put down.