The Patron Saint of Dreams by Philip Gerard

The Patron Saint of Dreams by Philip Gerard

Meet the characters of essayist Philip Gerard's world: a misguided sailor and his crew of rowdy teenage boys, an ancient nun, a nurse who believes the government has been secretly spreading the bubonic plague, a park ranger, jaded baseball players, a voice on a VHF radio far out to sea, a family of itinerant Mexicans camping dangerously in a dry riverbed, a famous alcoholic writer, and a few inexplicable ghosts. Gerard's true stories are shot through with the uncanny and the mysterious--they are not quiet interior contemplations but instead are full of public events, remarkable encounters, life-and-death moments that both reveal and deepen the mysteries of our lives.The Patron Saint of Dreams is a collection of fifteen narrative essays that address events in the world through the lens of personal experience, moments when seemingly small decisions have large consequences: enduring the terror of a direct hit by a hurricane, hiking through bear country and suffering a heart attack, hearing a disturbing secret from a old soldier who has kept it for sixty years, discovering an imposter who maintains his dual life long after death. Told by one of the South's most acclaimed and masterful nonfiction writers, these are the stories we live, and the lovely and terrible people who live them with us.

Philip Gerard is the author of four novels and seven nonfiction works, the most recent of which is The Art of Creative Research--A Field Guide for Writers (BkMk Press, 2017), as well as the novel The Dark of the Island and the novel THINGS WE DO WHILE NO ONE IS WATCHING (BkMk Press, 2017). He is a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Department of Creative Writing.

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ISBN 13	9781891885891
ISBN 10	1891885898
Title	The Patron Saint of Dreams
Author	Philip Gerard
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hub City Press
Year published	2012-03-15
Number of pages	200
Prizes	Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Essay/Creative Nonfic) 2012
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