Nailing Down the Saint
Craig Cliff
Nailing Down the Saint
Craig Cliff
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, heaEURO ™s working at a chain restaurant, his marriage is on shaky ground after a porn-related faux pas and his son wonaEURO ™t stop watchingA Aladdin.
When Duncan gets the chance to scout locations for a fAted directoraEURO ™s biopic of Saint Joseph of Copertino, itaEURO ™s the lifeline heaEURO ™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 isnaEURO ™t all itaEURO ™s cracked up to be.
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