Patrick Dennis

En Hollywood la mentira, el engaño y la ostentación son moneda corriente, pero se diría que el director de culto Leander Starr es capaz de engatusar al mismísimo diablo. Sin embargo, los años no pasan en balde ni siquiera para un genio como él, y aunque el público sigue siendo misericordioso, sus ex mujeres y el fisco estadounidense terminan por perder la paciencia. Como otros grandes directores, decide fugarse a México, donde se propone rodar...

Following in the tradition of Auntie Mame, in 1962 bestselling author Patrick Dennis turned his wicked satirical pen on the insane world of fictional director Leander Starr. Rumored to be based on legendary filmmaker Orson Welles, Starr proves to be outrageous and memorable in this glamorous comedy of errors. Fleeing the IRS, creditors, and jilted lovers, Starr holes up in a Mexico City apartment, Casa Ximenez, with his faithful valet, Alistair St....

In order to fully, appreciate this book you need to read the previous books in the Shonak Series. The Shonakians are a simple, placid race of people but so different from us that a great deal of background is, provided in the first book, The Crown of Happenstance. The book introduces the three main protagonists in the book; Bon of Shonak, Itself the over spirit of the "Six Earths", and Atsa, a proto-Hopi and all around honest, caring, spiritual human,...

In order to fully appreciate the story this book contains, you really need to read the previous books in the Shonak Series. There you will learn about this very different race of people on an alternate Earth and their complex relationship with the people of Earth. The Shonakians are a simple, placid people but so different from us that a great deal of background is provided in the first book, The Crown of Happenstance. That book introduces Bon of...

A curious time shift takes Bon and his planet, Shonak, on an expedition into the nature of Time itself. It also sets the stage for open interaction between Shonak and Earth, which until the "shift" was the Earth of 1000 BCE. Suddenly, inexplicably, Earth was thrust forward in time by 3210 years. Now a modern, technical world, Shonak can finally relate to the people and can have an open relationship with them. While the time shift on Earth was indisputable,...

This is a story about alternative science, spirituality, and world history. On its surface, it is a story about a search for something that may or may not even exist, and the different people, from different realities, who are trying to find it. How they interact and how they go about their search carries that part of the story but there are other threads of stories in the mix, too. First is another version of Earth, known to its people as Shonak,...

A young man reminisces about his upbringing under the care of the unconventional aunt who was his guardian.