The Prophet Pasqual - Hardcover

Wintner, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1579620507 ISBN 13: 9781579620509

Publisher: Permanent Pr Pub Co, 1999

The Prophet Pasqual is set in Hawaii in modern times and deals with Hawaii's two realities. The first is the postcard-pretty one. The second is comprised of the grit, heat, pollution, greed, racism and lust in the 50th state. Population pressure and cultural short circuits come home to roost in small town characters with old-fashioned needs. Pasqual is a New Age emissary, down on his luck. His friend Ray Lloyd is a reformed pot grower, now a tree farmer, who can't find love but for awhile finds adventure by bankrolling an up-and-coming guru. The ultimate peddler, Charlie Fruit, came to town on a chance for warm weather and provides show-biz management. Richie Smith provides the music; he's a tough guy, blues guitarist, laborer, alcoholic and drug addict, and father to the mystical child, Althea. Richie was married three times, most recently to Althea's mother, who plays the harp and seeks heavenly love with personal auditions. The Prophet Pasqual is a fun tale of the modern tropics and characters striving to keep pace with a world out-racing its headlights. If you like Hawaii, you will see a side of it here unavailable to casual visitors.

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From the Author:

Maui has long been known as a healing place because of the bona fide skills available here. But bona fide skills will often engender copy cats with all the trimmin's and not so much in the bona fides. The Prophet Pasqual is drawn on real time in Haiku and in the dojo, when contact with the aerie faerie cottage industry of Truth, Light and Healing was first hand. This is a fun one.

From the Inside Flap:

This is the story of three middle-aged men; wayward souls looking for something, who meet while studying martial arts. Ed McGuy is a simple, giant-sized sanyasin who feels a calling to be a guru. Richie Smith is an alcoholic tough guy bartender who aspires to be a blues guitarist, though he's not a good musician; and Ray Lloyd is a reformed pot grower and successful tree farmer who can't seem to connect with women.One day, for the most unexpected reason, Ed (otherwise known as Pasqual) finds himself gaining a reputation as a seer. When Ray provides financial backing and practical advice, Ed soars from hard luck to cosmic grace, complete with a growing following. His friends decide to go along for the ride: Richie to provide music before the preaching, and Ray to meet many willing women and other hangers-on, including the ultimate salesman, Charlie Fruit. All join the action to advance their own agendas.The story plays out against Hawaii's two realities, the postcard pretty one and the Hawaii of heat, pollution, racism and greed.Early success turns out to be the easy part, but it soon becomes its own hell on earth, as these three seekers find more and less than what they bargained for.

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