A stridently modernist retelling of the life and times of Saint Paul as told in the New Testament book, The Acts of the Apostles, Acts is hilarious, provocative, action-packed and, as theologian Jaqueline Bussie suggests in her foreword, irreverently reverent. But Hartley's reimagining of one of the foundational texts of western civilization is very much about the here and now. Critical, speculative, engaged, like a postmodernist western set in Palestine and the Aegean, a consideration of how one conflicted individual's inspired insights, tortured spirituality, foul mouthed temper tantrums and various neuroses helped shape, for better or worse, the world we still try to get along in today.

This book also includes the scripts for Hartley's critically acclaimed  1998 film, The Book of Life and his play Soon (1998-2001), both of which led to his decade-long immersion in Acts, finally completed in 2008 and published now for the first time.

Publication Date: May 25, 2022
Publisher: Elboro Press
ISBN: 978-1-7379274-2-6
Perfect Bound Paperback, 264 pages
Dimensions: 5” x 8”
Retail Price: $17.95