Of Flesh and Stone is a subtle woman's story told through the eyes of the male character, Donovan Scali, who is fated to die with his mother in childbirth. When his mother tries to push Donovan through her womb, the priest who is giving her the last rites, says, "You must stop this. Let it die in peace. The child will be with God," but the mother's strength and love pushes her baby through her womb and she dies at that exact moment. The newborn infant is later left to the nuns at St. Rita's Convent where he will spend the first five years of his life. Donovan spends his young years in orphanages and foster homes and he finds a way to live through these years because there simply was nothing else he could do. It is in the Devil's Pocket that Donovan begins to write his stories and poems. However, tragedy follows Donovan in his odyssey through life. His path leads to hell and back and to hell again. The only thing that keeps him alive is his gritty determination to survive and survive he does. From the streets of South Philly to the Ivy league. From JFK's campaign to Berlin. From the jungles of Vietnam to the radical student protests at Florida State University. From Prison to academic life. From Tallahassee to the French Riviera. Of Flesh and Stone is a story of America with all its faults and triumphs.

Of Flesh and Stone

Mark Randolph Conte

Aberdeen Bay

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Of Flesh and Stone