Babette:
The Many Lives, Two Deaths and Double Kidnapping of Dr. Ellsworth
By
Ross Eliot
Genre:
Memoir, LGBTQ/ Trans Nonfiction, NW History
Synopsis
This narrative begins in 1998 when, in his
early twenties, Ross Eliot relocates to Portland, Oregon and eventually the
basement pantry of a grand house owned by Dr. Babette Ellsworth, an arcane
history professor.
Her past unfolds in stories, from the 1928
kidnapping in central Washington carried out by a mysterious wealthy French
woman, to life in occupied Europe during World War II with the Czarist assassin
of Rasputin a frequent houseguest. The professor’s later life experiences in
America only create more intrigue, from teenage prostitution to her late-life
sex reassignment, involvement with the Catholic Church and connections to
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, whose cult perpetrated a notorious 1984 bio-terror
attack in Oregon.
Eliot cares for Dr. Ellsworth until her
death in 2002 before an entire class of students, however, the shroud covering
her story has only partially raised and murkier secrets than ever suspected
emerge. Part memoir, part mystery, part history lesson– this true tale binds
drama from classic Greek tragedy together with revelations worthy of the most
bizarre fiction. From gender and sexuality to religious theory and existential
philosophy, it’s an unorthodox love saga between pupil and mentor, yet also for
the city of Portland where they live.
Author
Info
Ross Eliot is a writer, roofer, auto
mechanic, DJ and commercial fisherman based in Portland, Oregon and Sitka,
Alaska. He is best known as publisher
and editor of the critically acclaimed counterculture gun politics magazine American Gun Culture Report from
2006-2011 and the current internet journal Occupy
the 2nd Amendment.
www.profellsworth.com
www.facebook.com/babette1928
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1u9mzxZ
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21468432-babette
https://twitter.com/DrEllsworthBook
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