Heart of Gold

by Russell H. Greenan

Le révérend John Lenox, le pasteur au coeur d'or, côtoie de drôles de gens : un vieil avare qui vaut un million de dollars, un savant allemand qui envoie vos lingots d'or dans l'au-delà, un fleuriste halluciné, une jeune beauté carrément mystique. Quant à Johnny Matthew, ivrogne, turfiste, amateur de jolies filles, il a lui aussi un coeur d'or... Et de gros besoins d'argent. Comme Johnny Matthew et le révérend Lenox ne font qu'un, on comprend qu'il ne soit pas très catholique, ce pasteur qui se dit un jour : il se pourrait que Dieu existe ! Voici la troisième édition de ce livre déjà paru au Fleuve noir et chez Crapule. Par l'auteur de C'est arrivé à boston et de La Nuit du jugement dernier.

276 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Greenan grew up in the Bronx, had a tour of duty in the US Navy, and after attending Long Island University on the G.I. Bill, went to live in Boston in the early 1950s. For several years he worked as a traveling salesman selling industrial machine parts in remote corners of New England. His savings enabled him to travel to Nice, France where he stayed for a year to write. On his return to Boston he married Flora Bratko and opened an antique shop in Harvard Square. The business was short-lived but the experience provided an abundance of material for his subsequent career as a writer. In 1966, by then aged 40, he left his job as a ball bearing sales manager and traveled with his wife and three children to return to Nice with the intention of taking a year to finish a novel. This work was eventually published by Random House in 1968 titled It Happened in Boston? to significant acclaim.

Greenan maintained his career as an author by dividing his time between Europe and the U.S.A. and concentrating exclusively on writing novel-length works. To date ten novels by Russell H. Greenan have been published in the U.S.A. and France. Over 40 different editions of these novels have appeared in five languages.

Reviews

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fantastic. bostonian rev's rich parishioner plans to zap gold into the afterlife via kooky german physicist's invention. taps rev to collect the $$$ from swiss bank acct upon his death. rev gets impatient; things get real macabre real fast. greenan's descriptive faculties firing on all cylinders here. grab it, then convert it to antimatter so you can read it on the otherside too