The Easter Lamb

by Mark Conte

In the Vianello family a lamb is bought on Good Friday, fattened up all day Friday and Saturday, and slaughtered Saturday night to be cooked for Easter dinner. But this year, the three Vianello boys, Dante, Johnny and Carlo, along with the Irish girl next door, become fond of the lamb, which they have named Delilah, and devise a daring plan to rescue it from this fate. An amusing and inspiring family story for all ages.

95 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2015

About the author

Mark Randolph Conte has published fiction, poetry, articles, interviews and Guest Columns in 67 publications. He has eight books, Walking on Water, poetry, 1986, Delilah and Other Stories, 2001, The Judas Scroll, poetry, 2004 and Five Days to Eternity, 2005. Of Flesh and Stone, 2009, The Ghost 2013, The Easter Lamb 2015, The Death of Sherlock Holmes, 2015, Kathy's Songs, poetry, 2016.. The Winds of revolution august 2017 and A Friend of the Family due December 2017 He had short stories in the anthologies Steps in Time and Love Matters. He won Honorable Mention in the PEN American award in short fiction in 1979 and first prize in poetry in the Barbwire Theater awards. He is a member of the Academy of American Poets and the Authors Guild.

Reviews

[Mark Conte]

The Easter Lamb

Five Star review Readers Favorite

"A rollicking romp through the Easter holiday with a joyful ending that will warm every heart with love and laughter."



Book release,
The Easter Lamb, Novella
98 PP $6.99 paperback

Dear Sir/Madam,

It is with our great pleasure to send you author Mark Conte’s new book The Easter Lamb, which we hope you will be able to assess for review in your publication.

It is set in nineteen-thirties Philadelphia, where an immigrant Italian family living next door to an Irish family strive to uphold their family tradition of buying a lamb before Easter, in order to fatten it to be slaughtered for Easter dinner. Kept in the family’s cellar until then, the endearing creature proves a magnet to other city children who flock to see it, and the youngest Vianello boy begs to save the life of their new “pet”, now dubbed “Delilah”. This gives rise to a convoluted plot involving the secret purchase of a substitute lamb carcass and the smuggling of the live lamb out of the house, only to be discovered .

Sensitively written and evocative of the times, we find this to be a charming book on many levels, and very funny, and hope you agree.


Sincerely,



Carly McCracken
Publisher
Crimson Cloak Publishing

[Veronica Castle · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book: charming, entertaining and funny.