Tales of the Sacred Heart

by Melanie Villines

Tales of the Sacred Heart is a humorous look at events in an inner-city Chicago neighborhood that culminate in Judgment Day. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096684050X
• ISBN13: 9780966840506
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Bogfire Inc.
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Graceful...

Mellanie Villine's book is a pleasant tale; filled with vivid images that imbed one with a sense of ancient, often religious, meanings. A graceful act of storytelling in a contemporary Chicago setting.

Thoroughly Enjoyable

This book is a gem, a delight from start to finish. Humor is very visual for me and Melanie Villines paints vivid pictures with her words... I was right there with her in the mini-mart with brains splattered on the ho-ho rack. I felt like she had been inside my head before when I read the bit about Norma thinking God might be too exalted to visit a place where the floors hadn't been swept (I'm not past noticing cobwebs hanging from the ceiling lights at church). Actually, I had this feeling throughout much of the book... this author is a keen observer of people, she sees, she knows, she understands and best of all she enjoys. There are plenty of laughs, (yes, that lighter fluid in the face stuff was a real hoot), but also an underlying poignancy... poor exahausted Leszek, poor Tyler, poor all of us; it's a combination that made me a little wistful, but also securely comforted in the knowledge that life is good. This book will tickle your funny bone, tug at your heart and lift your spirit... it is thoroughly enjoyable.