St. Patrick's Bed - Hardcover

Green, Terence M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765300435 ISBN 13: 9780765300430

Publisher: Forge Books, 2001

Synopsis

Terence M. Green's novels growing out of the history of his family in the last century, Shadow of Ashland and A Witness to Life, have won him much critical praise and a wide readership. Now, in St. Patrick's Bed, Green returns, at a point fifteen years later, to the story of Leo Nolan, who went to Ashland, Kentucky in search of his lost uncle, Jack Radey, and in finding him, also found a wife, Jeanne, and her young child, Adam.

Leo and Jeanne have been trying for a few years to have another child. And Adam, now a young man about to leave his teens, feels the need to trace and visit his true father, who abandoned his pregnant mother before he was born. Because he loves and wants to protect Adam, Leo decides that he had better visit the man first, and so he embarks on another trip into the past, from which he returns changed again.

Terence M. Green is a substantial novelist of exceptional talent. He is able to write about emotions with sensitivity but without sentimentality. As Charles de Lint says, "Green pens moments of such pristine clarity, so perfectly describing a mood or a detail, that the words seem to sing from the page."

About this title

About the Author:

Terence M. Green lives in Toronto, Ontario. He and his wife Merle Casci, have recently had a child, Daniel Casci Green.

From Booklist:

Fathers and sons--will their jockeying for position and quest for relationships that bond but don't bind, ever cease to fascinate? In a sequel to Shadow of Ashland (1996), Green flashes forward to the family of Leo Nolan in the late 1990s, when Leo's stepson, Adam, 21 and a University of Toronto English major, suddenly expresses the desire to find and meet the father who abandoned him before his birth. This prompts Leo's recollections of relations with his own father, Tommy, his Gramps, and even his Uncle Jim, who had one leg longer than the other. Leo, who is trying for a late-in-life baby with Jeanne, Adam's mother, decides to find his stepson's father first in order to check the man out and spare Adam the potential pain of disappointment. Interspersing Leo's memories of the man who fathered him with his progress in finding Adam's sire, Green infuses the novel with a tender regard for ordinary pathos and for quiet truths that rise far above the soap opera lesser hands might have made it. Whitney Scott
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About this edition

• Publisher: Forge Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0765300435
• ISBN 13: 9780765300430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224