The Ten Weeks: “Anyone can blow your mind, only you can open it”

“Great book.” The Writer’s Edge

“I loved it.” Dr. Ann Marie Krejcarek, former Headmaster, St. Andrew’s School, Boca Raton, FL

In 1970 “sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll” ruled supreme in Point Collina, a tony beachside resort. No where was that more true than at the local high school, and that scene was ruled by Denise Kendall, tennis captain and daughter of the most prominent man around. But this happy life of “peace and love” was rudely interrupted when Madeleine des Cieux, a foreign student, started to do miracles, including healings and throwing tennis matches. Now the school, the government and Denise herself are forced to scramble for damage control, not only with Madeleine but with Denise’s ex-boyfriend, Jack Arnold, itching for revenge, and her perennial enemy, the development heiress Terry Marlowe. Both disaster and triumph end up on everyone’s plate in a world which is being rapidly reshaped both by and for the participants.

• How to Order
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• Introduction to The Ten Weeks, including the maps
• Excerpts from The Ten Weeks, done during the fortieth anniversary of its setting
• The Fiftieth Anniversary
  • After What We’ve Been Through, It’s Time for “The Ten Weeks”
  • The Ten Weeks, Meet the Characters Through Their Music
  • The book in segments:
    • The Ten Weeks, In the Palace
    • The Ten Weeks, 16 December, At the “Plantation”
    • The Ten Weeks, 17 December, Schmoozing the Elites the Old Way
    • The Ten Weeks, 18 December, At Death’s Door in the Midst of Lead Paint
    • The Ten Weeks, 19 December, A Miracle, Even With a Baptist
    • The Ten Weeks, 20 December, Arguing With the Bishop
    • The Ten Weeks, 21 December, The Doctors Have Done All They Can Do
    • The Ten Weeks, 23 December, What Women Are Expected To Do
    • The Ten Weeks, 24 December, So Do I Go to Confession?
    • The Ten Weeks, 25 December, See the Blazing Yule Before Us
    • The Ten Weeks, 4 January, When You’re the President’s Kid, You’ve Got Privileges
    • The Ten Weeks, 9 January (Part I), A Miracle Victory
    • The Ten Weeks, 9 January (Part II), Living Dangerously at the Edge
    • The Ten Weeks, 10 January, the Belle Epoque of Baptist Churches
    • The Ten Weeks, 12 January (Part I), Once I Was Blind, Now I Can See
    • The Ten Weeks, 12 January (Part II), One Miracle Leads to Another
    • The Ten Weeks, 14 January, The Bureaucrats Are Caught Flat-Footed
    • The Ten Weeks, 15 January, A Little Influence Goes a Long Way
    • The Ten Weeks, 17 January,:”You don’t do what you’re told, you get hung from the palace gate.”
    • The Ten Weeks, 18 January, When the Government Makes You an Offer You Can’t Refuse
    • The Ten Weeks, 19 January, There Are Many Things That Are Hard to Understand
    • The Ten Weeks, 20 January, When the Rector Doesn’t Drink, You Know It’s Trouble
    • The Ten Weeks, 21 January, the Bishop, the Government and the Environment Ministry Work Together
    • The Ten Weeks, 22 January, The Telex That Changes Things
    • The Ten Weeks, 25 January, Leakers are Always a Pain to Those in Power
    • The Ten Weeks, 26 January, Calling the Education Bureaucracy’s Bluff
    • The Ten Weeks, 28 January, Sometimes Things with Women Don’t Go as Planned
    • The Ten Weeks, 30 January, Rescued from the Bullies
    • The Ten Weeks, 1 February, Sad Chinese Poetry Always Leads to Tears
    • The Ten Weeks, 5 February, Part I, Go East, Young Man
    • The Ten Weeks, 5 February, Part II, Border Crossings Can be Treacherous
    • The Ten Weeks, 5 February, Part III, When the Boys’ and Girls’ Teams Meet, Strange Things Happen
    • The Ten Weeks, 6 February, Part I, Let the Ecclesiastical Constable Handle Things
    • The Ten Weeks, 6 February, Part II, When Victory is Out of Reach
    • The Ten Weeks, 7 February, The Burden of Our Sins is Intolerable
    • The Ten Weeks, 8 February, So Why Aren’t the Sacraments Enough?
    • The Ten Weeks, 9 February, Cancel Culture at the End of Fists
    • The Ten Weeks, 10 February, Keeping “Them” From Moving Up
    • The Ten Weeks, 13 February, The Best Solution Is to Leave
    • The Ten Weeks, 15 February, When God Touches Your Life, You Are Never the Same
    • The Ten Weeks, 16 February, Death Brings the Worst Out in Families
    • The Ten Weeks, 18 February, The Rioters Even Show Up to Funerals
    • The Ten Weeks, 20 February, Like a Twitter Thread, At The End It’s “Fin”
  • Some Reflections on “The Ten Weeks” and Our Current Situation
• The Island: the setting for The Ten Weeks
  • History of the Island (best place to start)
  • The Sensual Societies
  • Overview of the Church of Serelia

Below: the author, around the time of the The Ten Weeks.