The Adventures of Mr Marigold - Paperback

by Michael Charles Tobias (Author)

Michael Charles Tobias - in this colossal comic novel of 625,000 words - has given us a masterpiece of insight about our lives and troubled times. Through his idealistic hero Murillo Marigold and his earthy sidekick Sannazaro, Tobias meditates on everything that matters: poetry, art, philosophy, alternative technologies, environmentalism, human wrongs, animal rights, sustainable living, and utopias future and past. And what style! Passage after passage of inspired prose, from a mind on fire that sees every moment and encounter as hilarious, holy, and unique. The heart of the book is the author's deeply personal sublime vision: the sacredness of all living beings, the reverence for life, the passionate commitment to social and environmental change. This enormous, challenging beatific vision that reminds us who we are - and points the way to what the new world could one day be - makes Mr Marigold a modern classic, at once entertaining, nourishing, revolutionary, and profoundly wise.

Author Biography

Michael Charles Tobias is the author of nearly 50 books, many hundreds of essays, and the writer, director, and/or producer of some 170 films. He is probably best known for his novel, The Adventures of Mr Marigold. Tobias lives with his life-long partner and wife, the prolific ecologist, explorer, author, filmmaker, photographer, musician and philanthropist, Jane Gray Morrison, whose own books and films include such works as God's Country: The New Zealand Factor, "A Day in the Life of Ireland," "Antarctica: The Last Continent," the ten-hour dramatic miniseries, "Voice of the Planet," Donkey: The Mystique of Equus Asinus, the PBS feature film trilogy, "Mad Cowboy," "No Vacancy," and "Hotspots," the coffee table work, Sanctuary: Global Oases of Innocence, Why Life Matters: Fifty Ecosystems From the Heart & Mind, and - as Goodwill Ambassador to Ecuador's Yasuní National Park - the film "Yasuní - A Meditation on Life" that premiered at the United Nations Rio+20 Summit.