ISBN |
9780143773740 (paperback) |
0143773747 (paperback) |
Name |
Cliff, Craig, 1983- author. |
Title |
Nailing down the saint / Craig Cliff. |
Published |
[Auckland, New Zealand] : Vintage, Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2019. |
©2019 |
Description |
399 pages ; 24 cm. |
Summary |
Duncan Blake is a Kiwi filmmaker whose move to LA has not gone to plan. After a series of setbacks, hes working at a chain restaurant, his marriage is on shaky ground after a porn-related faux pas and his son wont stop watching Aladdin. When Duncan gets the chance to scout locations for a fêted directors biopic of Saint Joseph of Copertino, its the lifeline hes 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 isnt all its cracked up to be. |
Subjects |
Joseph, -- of Cupertino, Saint, 1603-1663. -- Fiction |
Levitation -- Fiction |
Visionaries -- Fiction |
Motion picture producers and directors -- Fiction |
New Zealanders -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction |
Marital conflict -- Fiction |
Fathers and sons -- Fiction |
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction |
Italy -- Fiction |
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