Michael O'Brien Stand-Alone Novels Bundle (Set of 3)

By Michael D. O'Brien

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This collection of three stand-alone novels from best-selling author Michael D. O'Brien features:

THE LIGHTHOUSE

Ethan McQuarry is a young lighthouse keeper on a little island in the Atlantic Ocean, a rugged offshoot of easternmost Cape Breton Island. He sees himself as a silent "vigilant," resolutely undertaking his duties year after year, with an exemplary sense of responsibility.

He appreciates his seclusion and is grateful that his encounters with other people are few and far between. Nonetheless, he is troubled by his solitude in the world, and a sense that his life is empty. In the end, his bravery, integrity, love of the sea and animals, practical abilities, and learning are insufficient to quell the internal storms and occasionally real storms of horrifying intensity that confront him.

He becomes aware from time to time that messengers are directed to him from what he refers to as "the awakeness" in existence, "the listeningness." At first, he doesn't identify them as messengers or comprehend what they're saying, until he becomes entangled in tragic events and learns to glimpse the unfathomable undercurrents of reality—and the hidden face of love.

"They that go down to the sea in ships, trading upon the waters, they see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep."

- Psalm 107: 23

Hardcover. 201 pages.

VOYAGE TO ALPHA CENTURI

This story, set eighty years in the future, is about an expedition launched from Earth to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system. The Kosmos, a massive spacecraft that lead character Neil de Hoyos refers to as a "flying metropolis," is enormous in size and capable of travelling at more than half the speed of light. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who was instrumental in the ship's design.

Hoyos has agreed to go as a passenger in order to escape the ostensibly benign authoritarian government that controls everything on his home planet. He is a sceptical and eccentric misanthropic humanist with long-ago-but-not-forgotten tragedies, loves, and hatreds. The revelations that await him on the journey and at its destination will shatter all of his assumptions and lead him to a truly new horizon.

Our infatuation with modern technology's near-angelic powers, its benefits and perils, its potential for obsession and disaster, raises critical concerns about human nature and the universe, about man's view of himself and where he is heading — and why he wishes to go there.

Paperback. 587 pages.

THE FOOL OF NEW YORK CITY

The Fool of New York City is set in modern-day Manhattan and describes the tale of two individuals who are called "fools" and "idiots" by most people they meet.

One is a real giant, while the other is an amnesiac who believes he is the seventeenth-century Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, hundreds of years old and aging slower than the rest of humanity. Billy the giant experienced amnesia a few years ago, and knows the agony of individuals who have lost their identities. He appears to be a simple man, a failed basketball player with a good heart who takes Francisco under his wing after they meet by chance. They go on a journey to uncover Francisco's actual history.

The quest takes them on countless adventures as well as into the enigmatic realm of hidden memories and the mysterious layers of the mind. It becomes a tour through the paradoxes and complexity of human character and "fate."

Hardcover. 280 pages.