Those Gorgeous Ghosts: Prize-Winning Stories with a Catholic Flavour.
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Overview of the Stories In the title story an aging bachelor is employed in the local crematorium. Since the municipal hospital opened an abortion annex 20 years previously, he burns the discarded embryos and distributes the ashes among the graves. When he is sacked his ‘little ones’ have prepared a surprise for him. In The Siberian Swimmer Jack d’Evelyn is stopping over to address a dinner at his Oxford Alma Mater on his way to Stockholm to receive a Nobel Prize. Foremost in his memory is his old room-mate from what was then the Soviet Union. Ivan is a mystery until the day of the Isis Ten-lap Swimming Derby when he chooses to reveal his secret in the interests of college glory. Jack d’Evelyn hasn’t seen his friend since that night when the KGB men arrived to take him back to Russia. Is Ivan at the welcoming dinner? Quintus Kirkwood’s modest life-style in Auckland, New Zealand gave no hint that Quintus was among the world’s wealthiest men. He is no sooner dead, however, than a tsunami of speculation inundates the country because his will, which ‘contains surprises’, is to be opened and read in public in the city centre. A Coven of Cowls and The Exorcising of St. Anton are stories set in monastic communities. The first is in Italy where two monasteries amalgamate to the chagrin of both sets of monks until the new abbot devises a simple ruse to ensure unity. The other tells of a foundation in Southern California where the monks are despondent when they find the land they have accepted as a gift is barren until they discover a valley fashioned by nature to welcome the cultivation of mushrooms. In time a group of young men present themselves and are admitted into the novitiate. Before long the old monks stop their geriatric chanting to allow the rich young voices to fill the choir – that is until the abbot, who has been in hospital, returns to St Anton. A cargo ship’s voyage from Ecuador to England via New Zealand is the background for The Protest of Abel which involves two sets of identical twins, except one is dead, aborted at the beginning of the second World War while his brother was unwittingly left in the womb. But not even death can cut the cord that binds the brothers. Fausto Batista is a handsome young Brazilian priest new to a Lisbon parish. A world-weary prostitute accepts a challenge to seduce him, with unnerving results. Little Thomas’s simplicity means he is categorized as a retard. When his mother follows his wealthy father to the grave Thomas, and the fortune, are left in the hands of his mother’s brother, C.L. . The father’s family is determined to take Thomas, and the money, into its net but is thwarted by the gentle, ethereal Thomas. The Death of Father Appleston examines the mind and heart of an 80 year old priest on his deathbed. Golden Gloves is set in a New Zealand Catholic School in the early sixties. It centres on the relationship between the headmaster and a student, David Kingley. The headmaster tries to expel the young man but Kingley quietly refuses to leave as the matriculation exams are about to begin. The climax is reached on prize-giving night when Kingley’s Maori boxing partner devises ‘condign retaliation’ for the headmaster. Elizabeth is discovered hiding in an Argentinean truck during the Falklands conflict. She is about to be raped when she is rescued by the intervention of her brother who, inexplicably, was elsewhere at the time. The crucifixion as seen through the eyes of one of the other two who were executed with Christ.. In The Kambala Buffaloes. a handsome academic has been deserted by his wife when he meets an Indian, Zamir Dev. They strike up a relationship even though Nicholas is conscious that the physically unprepossessing Zamir is using him to attract women. As the tale progresses, Zamir commissions terracotta buffaloes which come to represent the evil of beauty turned malicious. In a Portuguese village an old bishop tells of a bogus confession many years b, Kindle Edition, Formato: Kindle eBook, Rótulo: Fatima-Ophel Books, Fatima-Ophel Books, Grupo de produtos: eBooks, Publicado: 2013-04-18, Data de lançamento: 2013-04-18, Studio: Fatima-Ophel Books, Rank de vendas: 1769992.

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Set in locales as diverse as Italy and the Falklands, Siberia and Golgotha, these fourteen stories teem with as much life as the oceans on which many of them were written. The author's background as a merchant seaman and teacher provide the canvases for these absorbing, plot-based stories. Most have won prizes in international competitions.

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Set in locales as diverse as Italy and the Falklands, Siberia and Golgotha, these fourteen stories teem with as much life as the oceans on which many of them were written. The author’s background as a merchant seaman and teacher provide the canvases for these absorbing, plot-based stories. Most have won prizes in international competitions.Taal: Engels;Formaat: Epub zonder kopieerbeveiliging (DRM) ;Kopieerrechten: Het kopiëren van (delen van) de pagina's is niet toegestaan ;ISBN10: 9898564075;ISBN13: 9789898564078; Engelstalig | Ebook.