OTTAWA, Ontario (PRWEB) January 08, 2015
From author Ian Prattis comes a moving tale of personal “Redemption” (published by Xlibris) based on his very own life and how he faced and overcame the many vicissitudes of fate he encountered. In this allegory the character representing the author embarks on a hero’s journey, as memories are retold as epics reflecting the great adventure and great struggle of life.
The story follows Callum Mor, opening with his childhood in the Hebrides islands off Scotland. He draws wonderful mentors to him; his schoolteacher, who lights the spark of a bard in him, animal friends such as an otter, a brutal fisherman who shields his darkness from the boy as he matures, and others. Callum Mor thrives despite the poverty of his home, as the island life is suffused with gentle humor and adventure.
Things begin to change when his father is driven to madness and when his brother is murdered at Montreal. Callum Mor stays with his mother and forgets his yearnings to be a writer. He becomes the best fisherman in the region before grave misunderstandings tear his love, Catriona, away from him. He then drives himself and his crew to the very limits of endurance before his mother's death makes him snap. He enters the dark zone of alcoholism and withdraws from society with only his animals keeping him on this side of sanity. His solitude is broken when a family with a small girl comes to his house to seek refuge from a storm. Slowly he edges away from his self-destruction as he saves the girl's life in a winter blizzard. The glimmer of awakening dawns in him, he sees his life pass in front of his eyes, setting the stage for the final drama that illuminates the resilience of the human spirit.
From the rhapsody of an idyllic childhood through traumatic tragedies to the derelict zone of alcoholism and then a state of awakening, Prattis depicts the stations of a personal Calvary that ultimately lead to “Redemption.”
“REDEMPTION”
By Ian Prattis
Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 138 pages | ISBN 9781499012323
Softcover | 6 x 9 in | 138 pages | ISBN 9781499012347
E-Book | 138 pages | ISBN 9781499012309
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the Author
Ian Prattis, a poet and scholar, peace and environmental activist, was born on October 16, 1942, in Great Britain. He grew up in Corby, a tough steel town populated by Scots in England’s countryside.
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