Earth As It Is in Heaven An Aural Novel |
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Author:
| Elder, Karl |
ISBN: | 978-0-692-56799-9 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2016 |
Publisher: | Pebblebrook Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $12.00 |
Book Description:
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In dialect quite unlike any other, a xenophobic teenager reveals the story of his destiny begun when he confesses under the spell of his one-room schoolhouse teacher and surrogate mother that he possesses memory of the future. Only a crazy, he fears, would believe what he knows to be true, that he will become the world's best three-cushion billiard player, despite that he has never seen such a table in his life. For now, he must endure calamity-magnified by an array of wearisome...
More DescriptionIn dialect quite unlike any other, a xenophobic teenager reveals the story of his destiny begun when he confesses under the spell of his one-room schoolhouse teacher and surrogate mother that he possesses memory of the future. Only a crazy, he fears, would believe what he knows to be true, that he will become the world's best three-cushion billiard player, despite that he has never seen such a table in his life. For now, he must endure calamity-magnified by an array of wearisome paranormal gifts, including that of a somnambulist who draws in his sleep-in his rural community, where mayhem and miracles abound, moving him into the role of witness and reluctant disciple of a new religion espousing an ecological ethic.