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Dorothy Enid Eden (1912 – 1982) was a novelist and short story writer. She published two novels with the pen name of Mary Paradise. She was born April 3, 1912 in Canterbury Plains, New Zealand, where she attended school and worked as a legal secretary before moving to England in 1954 to pursue a full-time writing career. She died of cancer in London on March 4, 1982.Eden was best known for her writings in the historical, suspense, and Gothic genres. In addition to writing novels, she also contributed to magazines, including Redbook and Good Housekeeping.
Miss Eden's last novel, An Important Family, was published by Morrow in May 1982, two months after her death. It is described by the publisher as ''a mystery, adventure and love story juxtaposed against the background of manor house England and the harsh beauty of pioneer life a world away.'' Most of the action takes place in New Zealand.
Among the novels brought out here by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, her previous American publisher, are The Vines of Yarrabee, Melbury Square, The Shadow Wife, An Afternoon Walk and The Salamanca Drum.
To Miss Eden survived a sister and brother in Australia and nieces and nephews.
Dorothy Eden's Books on Amazon: Dorothy Eden
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/11/obituaries/dorothy-eden-69-the-author-of-18-gothic-historic-novels.html
Slant is a novel a novel that affirms and denies itself in one word: cute. Everything seems to make it cute, the main character, James, 19 years old, is young, virgin, cute. But James will try everything to deny the cuteness of this incipit, almost becoming a dirty angel, trying to destroy his innocence. He is Chinese-American but he has a complex about his heritage, a complex that unfortunately is not without reason. He goes to MIT, he is clever and pretty, but he is always comparing himself to the next guy, and most time than not he comes out as the looser in his mind. Doesn’t matter that apparently James has no problem to hook up, when he first decides he wants a boyfriend he meets Stan, an waiter wanna-be artist, young and beautiful, but dangerous. Stan is a party animal and he drags James in a perilous path towards unprotected sex and use of drugs as recreational activity. But Stan is like a drug himself, and James seems unable to renounce to him. When Stan dumps him, James uses Michael to rebound. Michael was James’s friend, obviously smitten by James, and even if at the time he had another boyfriend, Michael would have been more than willing to break-up with his boyfriend for James.