Nailing Down the Saint (NZ Author/Topic)

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A new novel from the Commonwealth Prize-winning author. 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, heEURO (TM)s working at a chain restaurant, his marriage is on shaky ground after a porn-related faux pas and his son wonEURO (TM)t stop watching Aladdin. When Duncan gets the chance to scout locations for a fAted directorEURO (TM)s biopic of Saint Joseph of Copertino, itEURO (TM)s the lifeline heEURO (TM)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 isnEURO (TM)t all itEURO (TM)s cracked up to be.