Something To Live For

Something To Live For recounts the drama that is unleashed when the lives of three college students and a fledgling gangster cross paths in New York and Paris. Solomon the photographer, Utica the intellectual, and Demo the criminal fall in love with Jesse. She becomes pregnant and refuses to reveal which of her three lovers is the father. In a setting of obsessive love, urban alienation, and surreal mayhem the backgrounds and psyches of the four come into play, and inexorably lead to ruin and redemption.Rafael Sinclair Mahdavi has written an unforgettable psychological thriller about young intellectuals seeking meaning in their lives during the tempestuous sixties and seventies.Ruth Rosen, historian and author.Mahdavi's remarkable observational skills, enthralling storytelling, and eye for detail illuminate his hard-hitting writing giving us an enduring story of resilience and love.Jonathan Shimony, painter and sculptor.Design: Peter Macken Dialogo DesignCover photo: Rafael Sinclaifr Mahdavirafaelmahdavi@gmail.com

Something To Live For recounts the drama that is unleashed when the lives of three college students and a fledgling gangster cross paths in New York and Paris. Solomon the photographer, Utica the intellectual, and Demo the criminal fall in love with Jesse. She becomes pregnant and refuses to reveal which of her three lovers is the father. In a setting of obsessive love, urban alienation, and surreal mayhem the backgrounds and psyches of the four come into play, and inexorably lead to ruin and redemption.Rafael Sinclair Mahdavi has written an unforgettable psychological thriller about young intellectuals seeking meaning in their lives during the tempestuous sixties and seventies.Ruth Rosen, historian and author.Mahdavi's remarkable observational skills, enthralling storytelling, and eye for detail illuminate his hard-hitting writing giving us an enduring story of resilience and love.Jonathan Shimony, painter and sculptor.Design: Peter Macken Dialogo DesignCover photo: Rafael Sinclaifr Mahdavirafaelmahdavi@gmail.com