Nailing Down The Saint

Author: Craig Cliff

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  • : $38.00 NZD
  • : 9780143773740
  • : Random House New Zealand
  • : Vintage New Zealand
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  • : July 2019
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  • : 38.0
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  • : Craig Cliff
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  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9780143773740
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Description

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 fated 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 it entails, and the possibility that the rational, materialist worldview isn't all it's cracked up to be.