Pale Horse Among Us

ISBN: 059581705X

Author: Evans, George

Condition: Used

About the Author An award-winning playwright, George Evans has had over fifteen plays produced in Seattle, Portland, and Phoenix. He is a retired professor of English from Pacific University in Oregon, where he taught American literature. He lives with his wife in Forest Grove, Oregon, and is an avid runner and proud grandfather. Product Description In the small, friendly Oregon town of Lone Oak, seemingly untouched by time and the modern world, a fundamentalist minister thinks the towns secular activities have summoned the pale horse of the apocalypse. Believing hes been called to become the towns savior, Reverend David Phillips strikes out at the scantily clad girls at track meets, the blasphemous talk among the towns eccentric cronies in the barber shop and gas station, and the growing population of Latinos, among whom he sees a teenage boy Jesus Martinez as the Antichrist. The minister, empowered by his religious beliefs, is a terrifying force, but the townspeople are not powerless. Led by the town matriarch, Rachel Douglas, flinty granddaughter of the towns founder, and inspired by Cat Stanford, a gifted athlete whose running prowess unites them, the town resists the minister and his followers. Will the towns fundamental goodwill and humanity be enough to withstand the ministers rigid and destructive fundamentalist beliefs? The pale horse, once called forth, cannot easily be recalled.