Re-Telling the actual Christmas Story

For all those of anyone who are thinking regarding an ideal Christmas gift idea, especially for book lovers, Geoffrey Philp’s Twelve Poems and even A Story for Christmas, is in fact accessible in bookstores nationwide, on the net at Powell’s, Barnes and even Noble, Amazon.com and even various independent book stores.

Twelve Poems and even A Story for Christmas explores the meaning associated with the holy days by the lives of characters who are as near in order to us as our breathing, and even whose challenges with belief, suspect, and even redemption, are as actual as our very own.

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Emphasizing the mankind of its biblical and even contemporary characters, the poems depict Mary and even Joseph as a newlywed couple about a journey in order to their ancestral homeland in which they are to be authorized with regard to a census decreed by a Roman tyrant. As they travel by the harsh land, they are joined by strangers who currently have been summoned by dreams, visions, and even supernatural occasions in order to bear witness in order to a child whose birth they are told is in fact destined in order to change the course of human history.

“A Story for Christmas,” that is set with regard to Miami, describes the plight of Raymond Allen, a despairing musician and even family man, who wrestles with his delight which is in fact both the source of his sorrow and even redemption.

“I’ve constantly sought in order to write a quiet, meditative book,” said Philp, creator of Benjamin, My Son, “which might give my buddies (and even a couple strangers) a taste of exactly what I currently have occasionally experiencedfleetinglybut nonetheless realizeda time of peace. And even given that I’ve constantly believed which a book was/is the best present I may ever give or get, it’s my permanent Christmas gift idea.”

Twelve Poems and even A Story for Christmas explores the meaning associated with the holy days by the lives of characters who are as near in order to us as our breathing, and even whose challenges with belief, suspect, and even redemption, are as actual as our very own.

Twelve Poems and even A Story for Christmas by Geoffrey Philp
Trade Paperback Original: $9.95
ISBN: 978-0-595-36887-7

REGARDING THE AUTHOR: Geoffrey Philp is in fact the creator of Twelve Poems and even A Story for Christmas plus the novel, Benjamin, My Son. His poems and even brief stories currently have made an appearance within the Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse plus the Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories. He lives with regard to Miami, Florida.

Writer website: www.geoffreyphilp.com

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