These Precious Hours

Written by Michael Corrigan

Narrated by Alex Hyde-White

These Precious Hours is a collection of related and interconnected stories concerning loss and recovery. At the end, many of the characters meet.
Declan Mulligan has lost a wife and visits Ireland to connect with a remote past. Dexter Flanagan has lost a beautiful woman to another, but writes a great love song. After a personal tragedy, Sean Dineen joins his ailing ex-wife to see the wedding of their son in Paraguay.
About the author: Michael Corrigan holds an MA in English from San Francisco State and attended the American Film Institute. He worked with several theatre artists, including Sam Shepard and Peter Coyote, and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his story, "Free Fall". Idaho State University Press published his grief memoir, A Year and a Day, dedicated to his late wife, Karen. These Precious Hours is his fifth book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Punch Audio
• Release date: Jul 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781662126796

Michael Corrigan

Michael Corrigan was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He holds an MA in English from San Francisco State and attended the American Film Institute to study screenwriting. He taught English and speech communications at Idaho State University. His books include Confessions of a Shanty Irishman, A Year and a Day, a grief memoir published by Idaho State University press, and These Precious Hours, now an audiobook read by Alex Hyde White. He has been active in theatre and worked with Sam Shepard and Peter Coyote. NPR broadcast Corrigan’s play, Letters From Rebecca, and he was nominated for a Pushcart prize for the story, “Free fall.” Mulligan, a novel, is his seventh book. His most recent novel is The Dean Sisters.