Robert Scott Ross\, an Akron native\, atte nded Rimer Elementary\, Innes Middle School\, and St. Vincent-St. Mary Hig h School. He is dean of libraries at Ohio University and holds an MFA in c reative writing from the University of New Orleans.
\n"Revival"< /em> synopsis:
\n"By the summer of 1984 \, televangelism has driven religious revivals to the brink of extinction. Struggling to make ends meet\, charismatic preacher Elliot Prescott Chipp s and his troupe of traveling revival performers will do anything to fill their collection plates. Putting down stakes in Akron\, Ohio\, the revival draws desperate and curious locals with its exotic music\, acts of healin g\, and promise of eternal salvation. But Chipps\, dissatisfied with the p ittance of tithes\, has a bigger score in mind.
\nOver the course of five days\, a bewildered boy\, a pool-hustli ng alcoholic\, a deluded beard\, an unstable pianist\, a deadbeat dad\, a jilted young woman\, a lovelorn local pastor\, an estranged singer\, and a nihilistic conman converge under the revival&rsquo\;s golden tent seeking something they&rsquo\;ve lost. What they&rsquo\;ll find is a revelation n one of them could have foreseen."- Amazon
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