Down The Cloud Ladder

About the Book

Down the Cloud Ladder is a collection of fifteen enchanting, haunting and sometimes humorous short stores. These vividly and sensitively told stories about love and lies, sorrow and joy, living and dying invoke emotions of tenderness and understanding and establishes Guinan as an author of powerful and resplendent fiction. As in his novella, Not A Dawn In Eastern Skies, the reader of these stories will journey from a small villa on the Northern shores of Lake Michigan to the quaint and time forgotten mountain villages of Old Mexico and other settings of romance and charm like St Mark’s Piazza of Venice and the French Quarter of New Orleans. In Down the Cloud Ladder are found nostalgic colored stores of perfect love and heart breaking beauty in a world that never promises happiness. They are stories of innocence and disillusionment and of the ever growing alienation of American Youth that has been symbolized during the 1960’s and the era of the Viet Nam War.

About the Author

In his mid-sixties, Patrick Guinan is still a young writer who has found his voice and uses it to tell about love and what living does to it. Growing up in small towns in Michigan and Illinois, the father of two grown children, Guinan spent almost forty years teaching in Florida and with brief stints as a politician and sports broadcaster. He now spends his time between his winter home in Bradenton, Florida, and his summer cottage by Northport Bay in the lovely woods of Northern Michigan where he learned about dreams and young love.