{"product_id":"a-sleepless-man-might-earn-john-harris-9781726766081","title":"A Sleepless Man Might Earn Two Wages: Stories Caught Between Dusk and Dawn","description":"Most of these stories were written over a period covering about twenty years for the journal Praesidium under the pseudonym \"J.S. Moseby.\" As the author explains in his preface, \"Moseby\" quickly came to be associated with the so-called magic-realist style. Put plainly, the stories in question often had an element of fantasy, though their narration preserved the matter-of-fact quality of a \"real life\" encounter. Dr. Harris insists that actual dreams usually produced the fantasy around which the rest of the story would grow; yet none of the works ever remained solely at the level of a bizarre, undirected flight. The mystery tapped in each case opened upon a source of spiritual truth: an enigma of human nature, a challenge posed by story-making to truth-telling, and even (more than once) a probe of realities beyond our earthly life.Several of these now-revised stories are exciting reads that would lend themselves to a good screenplay (e.g., \"Dry Thaw\" and \"Equality Island\"). It would be a mistake, though, to treat the book's contents as light escapist fiction. They are anything but that. They have the potential, both singly and as a collection, to draw the reader into a deep consideration of the human soul's complexity and its poor fit, very often, to the cut-and-dried circumstances of our material world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Harris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 172676608X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781726766081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.76d","brand":"John Harris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48996039786751,"sku":"9781726766081","price":12.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-sleepless-man-might-earn-john-harris-9781726766081","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}