Christmasville - Hardcover

Dutton, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0978665503 ISBN 13: 9780978665500

Publisher: Linden Park Publishers, Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

"The dickens of a tale!" (Kriss Kringle, in THE NORTH POLE GAZETTE)

About this title

About the Authors

Writing since the age of eleven, Christmasville represents the premier novel of Michael Dutton."In Christmasville, I wanted to achieve a seemingly simple, carefully tailored objective: I wanted to tell a story - as engaging for a sixteen year old as it is for a reader, sixty." Michael Dutton was raised in Absecon, New Jersey, but currently resides with his wife and daughters in Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated from Richard Stockton State College summa cum laude, and thereafter, participated in the graduate program in Comparative Literature at Penn State.Clam digger and construction worker; truck driver and warehouseman; controller, consultant ... Mr. Dutton was employed in a wide variety of capacities. "I've never had what you would call a career but, rather, a compilation of disparate job functions. Only one has any meaning to it - but it isn't in the list above."

Michael Dutton was raised in Absecon, New Jersey, but currently resides with his wife and daughters in Newport, Rhode Island, He graduated from Richard Stockton College summa cum laude, and thereafter, participated in the graduate program in Comparative Literature at Penn State.Clam digger and construction worker: truck driver and warehouseman; controller, consultant and ... Mr. Dutton was employed in a wide variety of capacities. "I've never had what you would call a career but, rather, a compilation of disparate job functions. But only one provides me with any sense of accomplishment - and it isn't in the list above."

From the Inside Flap

Near the intersection of magic and miracle, by the crossroads of dream and deja vu, lies the idyllic town of Christmasville. Perennially covered in new fallen snow, perpetually decorated in yuletide trimmings, Christmasville offers a vision steeped in what, arguably, is the most celebrated of western traditions.But at the center of things, something is askew.Through a series of perilous journeys - across a landscape shaped by a "a different set of rules" - Christmasville reveals the experiences and illuminations, the determination and discoveries, of Mary Jane Higgins as she unravels the dynamics of her unusual universe. It is a universe that in many ways is typical, evocative - one that we might dream of - but one which operates according to three, notably different, phenomena - time, space and memory.|Near the intersection of magic and miracle, by the crossroads of dream and deja vu, lies the idyllic town of Christmasville. Perennially covered in new fallen snow, perpetually decorated in yuletide trimmings, Christmasville offers a vision steeped in what, arguably is the most celebrated of western traditions.But at the center of things, something is askew.Through a series of perilous journeys - across a landscape shaped by "a different set of rules" - Christmasville reveals the experiences and illuminations, the determination of discoveries, of Mary Jane Higgins as she unravels her unusual universe. It is a universe that in many ways is typical, evocative - one that we might dream of - but one which operates according to three, notably different, phenomena - time, space and memory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Linden Park Publishers, Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0978665503
• ISBN 13: 9780978665500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 225