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Written by Carolyn See - Performed by Gil Bellows - Unabridged Fiction - 4 CASSETTES - 6 hours

Publisher, Publishing Mills (December 1999)

"Witty, insightful and compassionate, this book has a beguiling message." — Publishers Weekly

Bob Hampton is an enormously talented painter but at the age of twenty-eight he has yet to discover his artistic identity. Panicked at the prospect of living the life of a cliche — the tortured starving artist — he abandons his dream and decides to go to design school. To pay the rent the summer before he begins classes, he sets himself up as a handyman in the Los Angeles area operating out of a group home he shares with an assorted collection of equally directionless young people.

As he goes about the mundane chores of a handyman — fixing a faucet, trimming hedges, painting a pool — the young man discovers that almost all of his clients' lives are in as much disrepair as their homes or yards. Their injured psyches unleash in him a deep empathy and as he works the most extraordinary thing happens; the lives of his clients begin to heal. A chain reaction is set-off which leads Bob to an artistic epiphany and the nucleus of what will become his enduring legacy.

The Handyman is that most special of novels: one which captures the essence of the human spirit and its inherent infinite possibilities.

About the Performer: Gil Bellows is known to millions of TV viewers for his starring role as "Billy" on the hit FOX television series "Ally McBeal." He is also an accomplished feature film and stage actor. His motion picture credits include "Judas Kiss," "The Shawshank Redemption," "Miami Rhapsody," and "The Substance of Fire." On stage he has appeared in "The User's Waltz," "True West" and "As You Like It." He is a founding member of The Seraphim Theatre Company.