Böcker av John Corry

John Corry chronicles the quintessential story of the Murrays and the McDonnells, the Irish American "golden clan".

Where's Jesus? a metaphysical mystery is about Madam President of Switzerland, Pope Philip Neri, Schatzi a short-legged, low-bellied dachshund and others looking for Jesus in the flesh on earth now. Wicked White Warlock, Lucy Lucifer, and their ilk would of course do their damndest to prevent this.

Bang!"e;Help! My dog's been shot."e;Mrs. O'Reilly, living with Arnold Really O'Reilly, in a cozy Cape Cod bungalow overlooking the Atlantic in late November was moderately frantic over her wounded pet Arnold, who'd always wanted to write a mystery, had a fine collection of unpublished poetry, philosophy, and Quaker theology. Arnold was a tall man, thin as a rail, with deep set sleepy eyes, wispy hair on top, and a savage pink scar across his left cheek His hands were... "e;The dog? What about Mrs. O'Reilly mourning her favorite pet who'd just been shot?"e;'Not to worry. She didn't like the dog much anyway and Whiskers had only been nipped in the left hind paw."e;"e;But..."e;"e;As I was about to say, Arnold's hands were his favored visible physical feature. Grey-veined they put him in touch with his beloved computer and a hundred other little...."e;

It is not enough to present the wisdom of love as a credible line of thought; the text must also leave the reader with a renewed sense of being in touch with the most compelling component in human life. It must move the heart as well as the mind. If, however, my writing elicits only an emotional response, I will have failed to trace the influence of love as it presses its way into every aspect of human existence-not only in personal relationships in families and faith communities, but in business and the military establishment as well.