The Prodigal edition by Michael Hurley Literature Fiction eBooks
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“Stirring, romantic, and evocative of the sea’s magic.” —Kirkus Reviews
This sweeping allegorical tale begins with the escape of a Gypsy princess and her young lover from her father’s camp in 1851, recalling the flight of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. The boy steals Prodigal, a sailing ship blessed with unnatural speed, and the lovers escape to sea, leaving the father to grieve for the loss and pine for the return of his child. More than 150 years later on Ocracoke Island we meet Aidan Sharpe, an aging lawyer, as he rises from the sand of a remote beach after a lost weekend. While struggling to rebuild his life in this lonely outpost of the Outer Banks, Aidan is caught up in a two-thousand-year-old mystery that unfolds with the sudden reappearance of Prodigal off the coast, adrift and unmanned. Its discovery will lead Aidan and those close to him into the deep, in a race between time and eternity.
“[A]n intriguing, well-plotted, and multilayered novel. The supernatural elements—a religious relic, a gypsy woman out of legend—are thougtfully handled. Hurley writes beautifully, especially when depicting island and nautical life.” —Kirkus Reviews
The Prodigal edition by Michael Hurley Literature Fiction eBooks
Undoubtedly one of the best new books I've read, "The Prodigal" by Michael Hurley is the novel I tell everybody they must read. It is a story that you will not soon forget."The Prodigal" could be interpreted as a coming of age story, not of teenagers or young adults, but of the middle-aged. Mature adults who seem to have it all together, but grapple with insubstantiality. Adults, who as arrows of Life's bow, are missing their true target. These are the vividly drawn characters of Michael Hurley's novel.
A riveting and socially relevant tale, The Prodigal is a contemporary marvel of an legorical story of vices and virtues, of Achilles' heels, and odysseys into the unknown. Hurley spans two thousand years, several oceans, and eternal love with adventure and captivation.
The protagonist, Aidan, finds himself stripped of all his privileged-trappings: professional kudos, private clubs, top level connections, cash, even credit cards, due to a quick and nearly fatal bite from one of his own kind, an attorney of law. Aidan's mentor sends him to the backwaters of Okracoke Island in North Carolina, a land sequestered between the Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, to get his bearings.
Okracoke is often described as a geographical oddity with the folks to go with it. This quirky island has a single paved road and is only accessible by boat; it is so isolated that you can still hear traces of Elizabethan English spoken by the locals. It is as it has always been--a place treacherous enough to be a safe haven. It is here in Okracoke that Aidan meets the others whose fates and chances are bound up with his.
The tides, winds, and currents of life propel us along in directions that, unless we take notice and change our sails, might endanger us, indeed, ensnare our very souls. Hurley captures the forces that swirl among us; sometimes with dangerous gale strengths, sometimes with stalling headwinds, and sometimes becalming. And then there are those magical times in our lives when we have the wind at our backs and our sails on a broad reach going faster than hull speed--our eyes on the prize. The Prodigal portrays these moments with powerful writing that is finely nuanced.
Hurley unfolds the timeless stories of transgression and forgiveness, of despair and hope, of damnation and redemption with brilliant subtlety in this riptide of a novel.
"The Prodigal" by Michael Hurley was awarded the Chanticleer Best Book of the Year Award 2013 and the Somerset Grand Prize for Literary Fiction.
[Reviewer's Note: If you love the taste of salt on your lips, the stars above you and the wind in your face, "The Prodigal" will engulf you in its myriad of temperaments as it races against time, the elements, treachery, and power. As a sailor myself, I must say Hurley's portrayal of `The Prodigal' sailboat as a metaphor for the Divine Heavenly Host, Savior, and Spirit is pure genius.]
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The Prodigal edition by Michael Hurley Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I loved the way this book started but it felt like it just drug on and on. I liked the end but felt like it left me with unanswered questions.
I was totally entranced from the beginning. Awesome characters and being from the area, felt right at home. I really did enjoy the book and look forward for more from Mr. Hurley.
The Prodigal delivers what readers of romantic literature have come to expect....with a little twist of man's viewpoint on the subject of life, loss, romance, and a little adventure. Definitely worth it for those that want a relaxing read filled with warmth......
This story holds your interest from the start. The island and the ocean around seems a wonderful place to live and you feel like you are there and don't want to take the ferry away
Hurley is a great storyteller. This also explains why he was/is a successful litigator. I will look forward to his next book. Oh, and if there is a screenplay, I can totally see Matthew McConahay as Aiden. The jury is still out on who will play Sarah, Molly and Ibrahim.
From the opening prologue I was caught up with the ancient tale, then thrown into the present day with the most intriguing characters each having a special tale of their own. The story moves quickly with surprises throughout. Yes...it is hard to put this book down. I was engrossed from beginning to end. Michael Hurley has spun a beautiful tale and I hope he has another one in the works!
This was out of my normal area of reading, I normally stay away from anything with a religious twist. I am glad that I ended up not sticking to that. This book had me pulled in from the beginning. It starts with two young lovers that are running so they can be together. They steal a ship to get away to an island. It quickly goes to a more modern time where it starts to revolve around a lawyer who loses everything and ends up going to live on the same island. It then continues to tie the present in with the past when they find the ship that the young couple used to escape.
I love the details that the author used to describe the scenes in this book, they are so descriptive that you can clearly see what he is wanting you to see. It was a great read that I finished in two days because I could not put it down.
Undoubtedly one of the best new books I've read, "The Prodigal" by Michael Hurley is the novel I tell everybody they must read. It is a story that you will not soon forget.
"The Prodigal" could be interpreted as a coming of age story, not of teenagers or young adults, but of the middle-aged. Mature adults who seem to have it all together, but grapple with insubstantiality. Adults, who as arrows of Life's bow, are missing their true target. These are the vividly drawn characters of Michael Hurley's novel.
A riveting and socially relevant tale, The Prodigal is a contemporary marvel of an legorical story of vices and virtues, of Achilles' heels, and odysseys into the unknown. Hurley spans two thousand years, several oceans, and eternal love with adventure and captivation.
The protagonist, Aidan, finds himself stripped of all his privileged-trappings professional kudos, private clubs, top level connections, cash, even credit cards, due to a quick and nearly fatal bite from one of his own kind, an attorney of law. Aidan's mentor sends him to the backwaters of Okracoke Island in North Carolina, a land sequestered between the Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, to get his bearings.
Okracoke is often described as a geographical oddity with the folks to go with it. This quirky island has a single paved road and is only accessible by boat; it is so isolated that you can still hear traces of Elizabethan English spoken by the locals. It is as it has always been--a place treacherous enough to be a safe haven. It is here in Okracoke that Aidan meets the others whose fates and chances are bound up with his.
The tides, winds, and currents of life propel us along in directions that, unless we take notice and change our sails, might endanger us, indeed, ensnare our very souls. Hurley captures the forces that swirl among us; sometimes with dangerous gale strengths, sometimes with stalling headwinds, and sometimes becalming. And then there are those magical times in our lives when we have the wind at our backs and our sails on a broad reach going faster than hull speed--our eyes on the prize. The Prodigal portrays these moments with powerful writing that is finely nuanced.
Hurley unfolds the timeless stories of transgression and forgiveness, of despair and hope, of damnation and redemption with brilliant subtlety in this riptide of a novel.
"The Prodigal" by Michael Hurley was awarded the Chanticleer Best Book of the Year Award 2013 and the Somerset Grand Prize for Literary Fiction.
[Reviewer's Note If you love the taste of salt on your lips, the stars above you and the wind in your face, "The Prodigal" will engulf you in its myriad of temperaments as it races against time, the elements, treachery, and power. As a sailor myself, I must say Hurley's portrayal of `The Prodigal' sailboat as a metaphor for the Divine Heavenly Host, Savior, and Spirit is pure genius.]
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