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    612-822-4611

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Silent Crossing

Silent Crossing

Frances, Barbara

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ISBN10: 1951776755
ISBN13: 9781951776756
Publisher: Mikael Publishing
Published: Aug 14 2024
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Hamlet said, Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

Ezekiel, the main character in the following novel-play, is strutting his final hour upon the stage. Like the Biblical Ezekiel, he's been a mover and a shaker. Even in the face of death, he wants to control, not on a grand scale as he once did, but in a utopian village that he's created. He gathers together the people of his village, believing he's going to help them. All of those he's assembled also have Old Testament Biblical names: There's Jonah who's been swallowed by the whale of injustice and prejudice; Naomi who's suffered the terrible loss of a child; Leah who's physical appearance ignited abuse from a family member; Daniel who struggles with the lions of religion and alcohol; Rebecca, whose pregnancy forces her to runs away her from a well-to-do family; Saul or Rolling Thunder who presents a commanding presence but is frightened by

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