his is a book about the greatest fictional marriage of the 21st
Century in Scotland and the USA: June and
Blue McCallum. In outline it examines how true love conquers all. In essence love survives the slings and
arrows of outrageous fortune to oppose force by violent reaction and to regain Eden. Therefore as a loving
honourable couple forget about the past. The book ends with an open promise between the couple-It is a
good idea to never part from one another. This is a big story to tell. Like all happy marriages this is a test
of Courage, Rigour, Faith and Religion. Blue has become a Rain King and this is a very unusual thing to
happen to a man. On the salt Adrienne's character has provided him with this spirit of idealism that in the
face of it: bad luck has saved his and my life by Divine Intervention.
The book is set in Portland Oregon, Anchorage Alaska, New York, London, Aberdeen Scotland, and Los
Angeles. In a similar style and with a nod to their influence; the travel and intellectual integrity, in both
America and Britain, the Novel salutes indefatigably of the USA Beat Generation. The Classical theme of
the eternal triangle is examined from an Olympian narrative that is the omniscient golden thread that runs
from beginning to the end in the Novel. Like Oedipus Rex by the Greek Dramatist Sophocles, fate is
accompanied with Blue's fear of the unknown until he reaches a fork on the Road and is faced once more
with a choice. He physically fights his enemies and wins. This is anticipated By Albert Camus in the fight
scene in his book 'The First Man.' The Journey of 'Echoes Of The Dean' begins in Portland where Blue
meets June on the street and they go to the pub with a Tom cat Rio. The three Actors is the Classical Euro
and Asian centric ideal where the beginning of their friendship suspends when a fourth, an outsider,
another man Mark Pi who is a love rival for Blue and his budding affection for June, joins the company.
This notion of dysfunctionality in family friendship is examined by the characters of both June and Blue's
Fathers, Alan and Norman. Both Service Men that have served their Nations. Service to your country is
enshrined in stone. The corrosiveness of Alcoholism and failed love, is 1) the central flaw in both their
characters and 2) The basis of Blue's Schizophrenia and Bipolarity. This failure of father and son is
counterbalanced with the essential optimism of June's mother Rachael and June's married twin Brother
Marlon.
