Edward F. Saroney III, ’69, has authored and published “The Last Dodo Bird” with edits by Art Lizza, ’74. The romance/suspense novel details the life and times of Sean Rousseau – a nice but average guy possessing a few quirky traits who grew up in the bland 1950s and turbulent 1960s.
Through an ill-fated marriage and the passing of his family members, especially the tragic and untimely loss of his beloved little sister, Sean leads an everyday stoic and solitary life.
Unbeknownst to him, he is being shadowed ominously by an evil greater than he can imagine, an evil that lies in wait for his lapses into an unbearable sense of nothingness for the opportunity to rear up and consume him, mind, body, and soul.
But the Blessed Virgin Mary watches over him, through the intercession of a mother’s love for her son and, later, through a blind date with a woman who becomes the love of his life until her unexpected death. This is followed by a chance meeting with a second woman months later in the remote and mysterious lakeshore Hamlet of Misty Waters. Each occurrence comes when he is at the greatest peril of descending finally and forever into the void of nothingness.
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