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Letters from the Flesh

by (author) Marcos Donnelly

Publisher
Red Deer Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2006
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889953437
    Publish Date
    Apr 2006
    List Price
    $9.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780889953024
    Publish Date
    Mar 2004
    List Price
    $16.95

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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.

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