Letters from the Flesh
- Publisher
- Red Deer Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2006
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889953437
- Publish Date
- Apr 2006
- List Price
- $9.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780889953024
- Publish Date
- Mar 2004
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
Letters from the Flesh, the second book by new SF novelist Marcos Donnelly, sets a breathtaking pace, tackling far-reaching themes like evolution, fundamentalism, quantum realities, and the very core of human nature. The novel is a fictional collection of two sets of letters united by a single secret, but separated by two thousand years:
- the first-century epistles of a non-physical alien entrapped in the body of St. Paul the Apostle, accidentally triggering the birth of Christianity;
- the emails of microbiologist Dr. Lillian Oberland, a young college adjunct writing to her cousin Michael, a public school biology teacher facing the wrath of Creationist parents.
The letters reveal a relationship far deeper than passing coincidences-and signal that cousin Michael's unexpected conversion to fundamentalism might have interspecies consequences that cross the millennia.
About the author
Marcos Donnelly is a Red Deer Press author.