Nailing Down the Saint
β Scribed by Craig Cliff
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House New Zealand;Vintage
- Year
- 2013;2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 251 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Hollywood, fatherhood, levitation. This smart, funny, thought-provoking novel is full of surprises. Duncan Blake is a Kiwi filmmaker whose move to LA has not gone to plan. After a series of setbacks, he's working at a chain restaurant, his marriage is on shaky ground after a porn-related faux pas and his son won't stop watching Aladdin. When Duncan gets the chance to scout locations for a fοΏ½ted director's biopic of Saint Joseph of Copertino, it's the lifeline he's been searching for. But in Italy, in the footsteps of the seventeenth-century levitator, he must confront miracles, madness and the realities of modern movie making. A novel about the pursuit of dreams, the moral calculus this entails, and the possibility that the rational, materialist worldview isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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