Norman Malamud

Condemned to Live Norman Malamud

Against the background of the amazing Galapagos Islands where spectacular species birds, fish and animals dwell in peaceful harmony, the story finds the trio erroneously thrown together on a luxurious yacht. Judith May Blessing, beautiful and talented, and her husband Beauregard, a frustrated writer, leave New York to take a much needed vacation and find themselves involved in a murder. Caitlin and Lawrence Bartoni, a young middle class couple from Brooklyn, seize the opportunity and take a delayed honeymoon denying the reality that she has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. Dazzled by the glamorous lifestyle and opulence of the rich and famous, they too are inadvertently drawn into the murder investigation. The accused debonair, Trevor Jase Carr, wealthy CEO of a major American computer company and his wife Pamela Anne , promiscuous, psychotic, sex-drug addicted vixen, agree to a truce while vacationing on the islands in a last ditch effort to patch up their failing marriage.