Possible source of the book of the short sun?

O'Donnell, Tim BOSI · 12 Dec 2008, 13:06 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: Tim.O'Donnell at bankofscotland.ie (O'Donnell, Tim (BOSI))
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:06:10 -0000
Subject: (urth) Possible source of the book of the short sun?
Message-ID: <63FB9AC7E0AEC7459DBCC99DC44247CA01F6B0B7 at BOSIDEXDB.Bankofscotland.ie>

Has anyone heard of the book "The Three Suns of Amara" by William F. Temple?

http://www.buy.com/prod/the-three-suns-of-amara/q/loc/106/36261637.html

I read about it here:
http://www.avclub.com/content/blog/box_of_paperbacks_a_william_f

And the following made me sit up straight:

"Mostly the hero spends his time wandering an increasingly strange planet until stumbling into the tender trap of a shapeshifting seductress named Rosala. 
After molding her body to meet his ideal, they make love. A lot. But she's ultimately revealed to be a tragic Circe. 
[...]
Sherret's wanderings allow the author to let his imagination run, and the whole thing has an accidental surrealism similar of one of the era's low budget science fiction movies. (Killer trees? Sure! Why not?)" 

The book is even set in a trinary solar system where the suns names are Red, Blue and Yellow.

I have ordered a copy but it certainly reminded me strongly of Horn's wanderings.  I wonder the protagonist of Temple's novel learns how to astral project?

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