Bøger af Michael Corrigan

"THOMAS BREWER has done this before, moving like a pinball through a surreal nightmare only to awake in a different physical place." So begins "Brewer's Odyssey." Popular writer, Thomas Brewer, 40, finds himself in a plot not unlike his Gothic novels. A nightmare predicts a terrorist attack, and when it occurs and Brewer survives, his assumed psychic abilities draw the interest of a cynical CIA agent, Jeffrey Peterson. When Hillary Miller, Brewer's English-African literary agent and former lover, is indirectly linked to a terrorist plot involving the Vatican, Brewer inadvertently implicates the Middle-Eastern father of Hillary Miller's infant daughter. Subsequent revenge brings tragic results at a Paris celebration. Neurologist Susan Fredericks, the object of Brewer's desire, reveals his living nightmares signal another condition: REM Sleep Behavior Disorder that suggests a deadly prognosis. Thomas Brewer might have little time before paranoia and hallucinations destroy him leaving unanswered questions: did he really meet the ghost of Daphne du Maurier, and just who is that mysterious black girl haunting his dreams? Despite a dark theme, "Brewer's Odyssey" is rich with a corrosive humor. The style is clear, at times, lyrical, and the story lines of Brewer's arduous journey will connect on the Aran island of Inishmore where magic can happen and redemption is possible.

"These Precious Hours" is a collection of related and interconnected stories concerning loss and recovery. The structure is not unlike Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio." At the end, many of the characters meet. Declan Mulligan has lost a wife and visits Ireland to connect with a remote past. Dexter Flanagan has lost a beautiful woman to another but writes a great love song. Two women, strangers to each other, make a personal intimate connection visiting Stonehenge. After a personal tragedy, Sean Dineen joins his ailing ex-wife to see the wedding of their son in Paraguay. The main characters eventually meet at the Hemingway memorial in Sun Valley, Idaho to share wine, cheese and music. Experience the adventure.

Byron Duffy is a university English teacher with a rebellious student secretly filming paramilitary maneuvers by white supremacists called the Posse. When Byron gets involved with an undercover FBI agent named Mary Goldstein who uncovers a plot by the Posse and the mob to take over an Indian Reservation, Byron is drawn into a dangerous conflict. He also finds he has a rival for Mary: another FBI agent. Will a cabal of gangsters and paranoid terrorists destroy them all?" Here is one critic on Byron. "Though the title evokes another Byron, Corrigan's multi-plotted novel draws more upon Spillane, Hemingway and even a pinch of Pynchon than the romantic style of the author of Don Juan. Which isn't to say the protagonist of Corrigan's novel isn't a bit Byronic, just that there's a lot more Jake Barnes than Childe Harold...non stop action, suspense, murder and plenty of sex...It's a wild ride." Sara Beitia, Boise Weekly.

Can a person born into a nomadic culture find a home? When Michael Mulligan and Maria Burke flee Ireland during the famine, she leaves her tyrannical husband, Nathaniel Burke, and Mulligan abandons a secret society of Irish freedom fighters. Michael Corrigan is an American author. He has an English MA from San Francisco State and his story "Free Fall" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His work includes "These Precious Hours" and "A Year and a Day."

Broken dreams aren't always the pits. With this collection of interconnected stories, Corrigan weaves together a narrative of love and loss as Declan Mulligan visits Ireland after the loss of his wife, Dexter Flanagan writes a love song and Sean Dineen travels to Paraguay for his son’s weeding."Narrator Alex Hyde-White changes locale, accent, and personality in an instant as he moves from an Idaho Shoshone reservation invaded by Mexican gangs to a Gettysburg battlefield where a relative who is a Civil War hero rests." – AudioFileMichael Corrigan is an American author. He has an English MA from San Francisco State and his story "Free Fall" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His work includes "These Precious Hours" and "A Year and a Day."