Author: Chris Banner. Published by Diamond River Books, Shawnigan Lake, BC., 2009, 1st Edition. SIGNED and Dedicated by the Author. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with beautiful fold-out covers. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inch, 217 pages.
THE MERCEDES VARIATION, A Novel by Chris Banner, lyrically chronicles Paul's infatuation with his rural neighbour Mercedes, who was 'fresh and vibrant, and her eyes sent sparks as she smiled.'
The background explores the uneasy mingling of hippies into the established rural culture of Ontario in the nineteen eighties, but the theme is a personal struggle. Paul not only discovers natural rhythms but, from the hippies, or "beansprouters", as the locals called them, he observes other values.
