Most Popular Books by Peter CARTER

The last of the last of the great big families, Canadian magazine editor and writer Peter Carter is the youngest of 10 and has spent the past half century trying to make sense of his charmed life, in stories that take you from the rear pews of St. Clement''s Church to the front rows of cheap strip clubs. Storyworthy, ''s a grab bag of slices of life, gems of advice, sprinkled with humor. Storyworthy is a recipe for optimism.

Over the years I have shared anecdotes with friends and colleagues from the times that I worked in mental hospitals. My daughters Elizabeth and Catherine have encouraged me to put down in writing the stories that seemed to capture their attention and others who have heard them. Like many people I have talked about writing a book and now with their encouragement I have done it. I have worked in six mental hospitals in different capacities over the years. Nowadays most mental hospitals have been closed or in a few cases reduced in size leaving only a few beds on what were massive sites often with their own farms creating a self-sufficient community.

In 1943, with the surrender of Italy to the Allies, Corporal Vito Salvani finds himself and the orphaned Jewish boy Judah trapped in enemy territory in France, where they must flee from an obsessed Gestapo agent.