They Are Ruining Ibiza
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: April 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9781574410426
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Modern fiction; Psychological fiction; Popular American Fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction; Social life and customs; General; Fathers and sons; Ibiza Island (Spain)
First sentence: As the plane left the Madrid airport, Charles Martyn, PhD, age sixty-two, author of A Last Look at the American Novel-used (as a reviewer of the third edition noted) "in virtually every North American college or university where the department chair has not written a similar, but inferior, book"-told Susan, his second wife, that the first thing they would see when they landed on the island of Ibiza would be windmills.
Description: Charles Martyn, PhD, age 60, author of a classic work of literary criticism, is on his second trip to Ibiza - this time with his new wife Susan - searching for his artist son Led. Martyn muses that the first visit was "ruined, of course, eventually. Everything he had done was ruined eventually...except Susan. Harriet had gone from his life...and the end had started on Ibiza.".

Moving through the search for Led, the novel takes readers through unpredictable twists and turns in plot that keep them guessing about Led's whereabouts until the final scene of the story. Greene reveals in Martyn's character a psychological depth that gives this book an unsurpassed literary quality.