Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/fiction/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0004 407440 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/fiction/engine/rss.php:0 Craig Cliff - Free Library Land Online - Fiction https://fiction.library.land/ ru Craig Cliff - Free Library Land Online - Fiction DataLife Engine Nailing Down the Saint https://fiction.library.land/craig-cliff/518052-nailing_down_the_saint.html https://fiction.library.land/craig-cliff/518052-nailing_down_the_saint.html Nailing Down the Saint
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 f�ted 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.]]> Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:11:10 +0200 A Man Melting https://fiction.library.land/craig-cliff/153309-a_man_melting.html https://fiction.library.land/craig-cliff/153309-a_man_melting.html A Man Melting
]]> Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:51:55 +0200 The Mannequin Makers https://fiction.library.land/craig-cliff/157932-the_mannequin_makers.html https://fiction.library.land/craig-cliff/157932-the_mannequin_makers.html The Mannequin Makers
Playfully literate and strikingly original, an unforgettable debut novel about art, imitation, and obsession.
Excitement is rare in the small town of Marumaru, New Zealand. So when a young Maori man arrives on the morning train one day in 1903—announcing the imminent visit of a famous strongman—the entire town turns out to greet him, save one. Colton Kemp, a department store window-dresser, is at home, watching his beloved wife die in premature childbirth. Tormented by grief, he hatches a plan to make his name and thwart his rival, the silent and gifted Carpenter: over the next sixteen years he will raise his newborn twins in secrecy and isolation, to become human mannequins in the world's most lifelike window display.
The Mannequin Makers is an adventure-filled and thoroughly delightful yarn, introducing one of international literature's most promising young talents to American audiences.]]> Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:23:55 +0200