The Cocktail Cart

   Books in a Box Details: Author Edward Bear a.k.a. Marty Slattery: As Edward Bear, Marty penned the much loved books: The Dark Night of Recovery, The Seven Deadly Needs, The Seven Deadly Fears, Tyler and The Twelve Traditions, Edward and Tyler: Relapse & Recovery and The Cocktail Cart.

    Marty died almost 10 years ago. For all these years, the typed manuscripts from his Edward Bear books have been sitting in file cabinets in the basement of his home. It is now time to let these “Books in a Box” go.  M & J publishing, the entity created by Marty and Jo to publish the books, is holding an auction of Marty's works.

" The Cocktail Cart is a gem of a novel about the capacity of people to heal, and the ability we have to assist one another in that healing. The author brings his unique combination of gentle humor and spiritual wisdom to the creation of a touching and eccentric group of characters who reside in a hospice. . . As he is led through his own life-changing lessons by a mischievous angel, he helps the residents as they conclude the work of a lifetime.  I love this book. . . it's about believing." 

~ Dr. Judith Dowling, Psy. D. Clinical Psychologist

Winner of the Colorado Independent Publishers Award

Gracefully rendered and often humorous, the book is largely autobiographical. The main character's name reflects Slattery's longtime pseudonym, Edward Bear (after Winnie the Pooh, a favorite spiritual teacher). "There's a lot of Edward in me," Slattery says. "Probably, I put into Edward all the compassion and courage that I'd like to have but I'm not sure I do have."

"In what I have seen in the last several years of working with dying people, I am absolutely convinced that there is more," he says. "Not because I've seen anything firsthand; I've not had a single apparition or vision ... But I have come to believe that there are things that simply cannot be explained, and that there is more to life than can be explained. "My basic religious or philosophical view is pretty much encapsulated in the book," says Slattery.

Box #1  194 pages ~ Marty's handwritten note on box:  
Cocktail Cart Camera Ready  10/10/2000

 
This Auction Features 1 Book Manuscript
 ~and~ 1 Screenplay Manuscript

Box#3 (Laser copy) -  194 pages - Marty's handwritten note on box: 
"pooh note"  lots of notes- nice personal note on top.