Jerry Dickey

The Twelve Stories of Christmas (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, the author offers a wide variety of Christmas short stories written over a 40-year span of time. Written for adults, these stories start with a Christmas letter created in 1965 and conclude with a story penned in 2003. Each timeless story is unique in its setting and offers a tug at the heart strings of the reader. Readers will find stories that take place in New York City, Appalachia, Bethlehem, Europe, and the mid-west. In each story, the characters are thoughtfully crafted to touch your heart with hope. Time and again, they return to the eternal message of the love of God, and to the gifts of human lives caught in common moments of time.

The cover design by Patsy Ashley Given, a personal friend of the author, with its velvet dark blues and purples invites one into a constellation of lights suggesting that moments of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries can light our pathways far into the future. Following each story, readers encounter an enchanting piece of artwork that serves as a visual exclamation point to a personal journey with the words of the author. It represents the intense depth encountered by the illustrator in response to the touching characters revealed in The Twelve Stories of Christmas.

This book would be a wonderful Christmas gift, as it will go on giving year after year. It could well find a permanent place on the coffee table to share gifts of hope for all seasons to its readers, and to remind each reader that all of us can make a divine difference within our common, very human moments of time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trafford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781425194314
• Artikelnr.: 51589130

Autorenporträt

Jerry Dickey was born on December 11th in the midst of the struggles of World War II. Christmas arrived as one of his earliest celebrations of life; and throughout this book of inspirational stories, written over a 40-year span of his life, this celebration continues.

As a boy, Jerry remembers hearing his father, a Methodist minister, saying, "On Christmas Eve, no one wants to hear a long sermon. With all the excitement and anticipation, the people would rather hear a story." To embellish the Christmas scriptures, his father would share stories such as Hans Christian Anderson's "The Little Match Girl," or Raymond MacDonald Alden's "Why the Chimes Rang." From these early influences, Jerry set out to write Christmas stories which would lift lives and reflect hope for all.

Jerry's studies included courses in speech, drama, theology, poetry, theater, music, art, languages and the liberal arts, for which he earned bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. He studied for two years in Europe. Along with teachers and professors, Jerry's creative mentors were Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, O. Henry and Leonardo da Vinci.

Saint John wrote "the Word became flesh," and Jerry's stories embody this message. His characters come to life from author-created common citizens of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The humble-meek become the messengers of the Christmas hope to our world, and their lives reveal the continuous presence of God among us.