A Franklin Manor Christmas - Willcott, Paul
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For most potential buyers, Franklin Manor was just a huge run-down old house, a former monastery and tuberculosis sanatorium, half buried in Adirondack snow. But to erstwhile professor, Butch Regent, Franklin Manor was a beacon of hope. It would make his bland and unsatisfactory life meaningful. He would buy it, renovate it, and turn it into an artists' retreat. Lack of money, broken pipes, and pitiless cold almost defeat him but for the help of former patients, angels, a growing group of "temporary" guests, a long-dead altar boy, and a mysterious bell. In the end, the arists' retreat is…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
For most potential buyers, Franklin Manor was just a huge run-down old house, a former monastery and tuberculosis sanatorium, half buried in Adirondack snow. But to erstwhile professor, Butch Regent, Franklin Manor was a beacon of hope. It would make his bland and unsatisfactory life meaningful. He would buy it, renovate it, and turn it into an artists' retreat. Lack of money, broken pipes, and pitiless cold almost defeat him but for the help of former patients, angels, a growing group of "temporary" guests, a long-dead altar boy, and a mysterious bell. In the end, the arists' retreat is beginning to take shape - but not in a way Regent recognizes. It's a deep snow, feel-good story in the tradition of Miracle on Fifth Avenue and The Bishop's Wife.
Autorenporträt
Paul Willcott is a lapsed Texan with four degrees from the University of Texas, including a Ph.D. in applied linguistics and a law degree. He is a veteran magazine writer, editor, publisher, award-winning newspaper columnist and blogger, novelist, and one-poem poet. He has lived in Baghdad, Amman, Tehran, London, Hong Kong, Zurich, Washington, D.C., New York City, Saranac Lake, New York, and elsewhere. For many years, he and his wife Ann Laemmle lived in a former tuberculosis sanatorium/monastery in the Adirondack Mountains. They now live in New York City, where they feel more at home than anyplace they have lived.