Saint Frank

by Conor Creighton

Frank is a boy like any other, except he speaks to animals and falls in love with his first cousin. His story is a universal tale of human perseverance where freedom is more precious than gold. It's a cinematic journey through a surreal and charming landscape full of trials, temptations, violence and love. Saint Frank is Conor Jack Creighton's debut. It's a humorous and striking account of life's hard truths. Both animal and human.

"Amusing, original, assured and mightily engaging. This author deserves attention." Pat McCabe

"An original and pungent sort of nativity play." Peter Murphy

112 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 14, 2014

About the author

I was born in Ireland and now live in a small village towards the south of Berlin called Rixdorf.

I worked as a war correspondent reporting on Afghanistan and Kosovo. As an artist with my very own show at the Schwules Museum and now a writer.

But I've also worked as a barman, a painter, a pizza chef, a trawlerman, a brickie, a chippie, a sparky, an art dealer, a drug dealer, a teacher, a fruit picker, a dish washer, a carnival ghost, Martin Amis' babysitter, an ambassador to the world's newest country, a delivery man in a long white van and a star of Polish television.

And from this the stories sometimes bleed.

Reviews

[Douglas Penick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a wonderful fable of a life that begins as Frank learns the speech of animals and, after exploring evil, kindness, treachery and true love in the human worlds, returns to his first interlocutors. The style is alive with bright moments of intensity. The book is a marvel.