Dancing Over the Rays of Light

Dancing Over the Rays of Light

by Paul Enns Wiebe
Dancing Over the Rays of Light

Dancing Over the Rays of Light

by Paul Enns Wiebe

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Overview

Dancing Over the Rays of Light is set in a Kansas retirement home and environs. It touches on the humor and pathos of the elderly, who sit, gossip, and dream while being largely ignored by their following generations. It is narrated by a wee cluster of cells that wakes up one morning with no memory of who, where, or even what he/she/it is. On finding that he is a very old man, he proceeds to discover his reason for being with the aid of a yoga instructor, a set of fellow inmates, a teenage girl detective, a sassy scrap of wood, and a nip or two of hooch.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780971859982
Publisher: Paul Wiebe
Publication date: 05/28/2019
Pages: 332
Sales rank: 940,737
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Paul Enns Wiebe grew up in the Idaho Outback. Very early he found that the life of irrigating spuds, driving trucks, repairing fences, digging ditches, and chasing deranged steers across the open range was losing its fascination.



This discovery led him to the halls of higher education: Bethel College (Kansas) and The University of Chicago, which eventually gave him a Ph.D. and sent him away to a basketball-crazed university on the Kansas plains. There he taught comparative religion and literature and performed the duties of his chosen profession: translating and writing books, composing footnotes for journal articles, and arriving late at the meetings of those committees of which he could remember being a member.



But his mastery of the academic proprieties was never solid. Thus it came as no surprise to his colleagues when he resigned his tenured position and, in an attempt to recapture a vanishing sanity, took to writing comico-humorous novels.



Wiebe now lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife Elly.

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