Rapture at Sea: A Novel (Writers Club Press) [Mass Market Paperback]

Carolyn Muller (Author), Humphrey Muller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 28, 2000

With the advent of the year 2000, for so many the prospect of Christ's promised return has become more of a reality. So what if Parousia, or the Rapture does take place during the millennium era? What if Christ returns to Earth while some are on a sea voyage? Would some be taken, and some left?

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About the Author

Carolyn Muller was educated at Frenchgate Independent School for Girls in Richmond, Yorkshire. She has written for Cosmopolitan and Fair Lady, and is the author of the romantic novel, Rapture at Sea based on the return of Christ. She has traveled extensively and now runs her own hotel in Scotland as well as an Internet accommodation guide for the U.K. (http://www.travelaccomodation.co.uk)Humphrey Muller, once a professor of English in South Africa during theApartheid years, moved to Scotland to devote more time to creative writing.He has since written a number of novels (A Twist in Time, The Cage and the Cross, Wheel of Fortune, and Continental Drift), and with his wife Carolyn has co-authored two novels (Rapture at Sea and Spirit of Ecstasy).

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse; 1st edition (October 28, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059513825X
• ISBN-13: 978-0595138258
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,400,830 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Jesus is coming soon!, April 15, 2010

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This review is from: Rapture at Sea: A Novel (Writers Club Press) (Mass Market Paperback)

A Christian novel. As the year 2000 approached for many the prospect of Christ's promised return already became more of a reality. So what if the Parousia, or the Rapture does take place? What if Christ returns to Earth while some are at sea? Would some be taken, and some left? What might happen to those passengers on a sea voyage?

This review by Christopher Sarton was sent to me:

I have read Rapture at Sea and found it most instructive technique-wise--besides definitely enjoying the read. As regards technique, I was particularly interested to see how the authors made Malcolm, Bob and Jeff so distinctly different from one another, even though they were all basically unpleasant characters, while having no obvious distinguishing marks such as Ambrose's dog-collar or Dr Davis' disability.

As regards the book being a great read, I found the last chapter (Ten) grippingly powerful--not to be put down once I'd started to read it! The divine manifestations were startling but at the same time fully appropriate. And baffling to the dimly aware mundane characters. First, the foghorn, the thunder, and the suspension of all electricity; then, later, the fog, the stillness of silence, the aurora round the "Aurora" (the ship), and the withdrawal of the star. And everyone was as bewildered as if a thief had been, and gone, in the night.

And as for the effect of it all on them! First, all the "religious nutters" were, suddenly and with no warning, "changed in the twinkling of an eye," and not seen again. And at the same moment there were the resurrections: Ernest's after his short spell in "sheol" (not so names in the book); and Rose's a couple of hours or so after she died.

The majority "left behind" came differently to that realisation: Mavis readily and almost at once; Ambrose, tardily, and devastatingly, when logic forced him; Malcolm, not at all; likewise Bob and Jeff; the self-absorbed Dr Davis and Mrs Fellows belatedly beginning to catch on. And, notwithstanding the evidence, including media reports, there was the work-a-day unawareness (induced by the compulsion of their profession?) of the ship's officers, especially the purser.

Altogether a very satisfying read! And thought-provoking, like all the best books. I'm glad to have this book on my shelves.