Last Words of the Holy Ghost

ISBN-13: 9781574416121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str.

Matthew Cashion

Opis

Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2015.
Funny, heartbreaking, and real these twelve stories showcase a dynamic range of voices belonging to characters who can t stop confessing. They are obsessive storytellers, disturbed professors, depressed auctioneers, gambling clergy. A fourteen-year-old boy gets baptized and speaks in tongues to win the love of a girl who ushers him into adulthood; a troubled insomniac searches the woods behind his mother s house for the awful pretty singing that begins each midnight; a school-system employee plans a year-end party at the site of a child s drowning; a burned-out health-care administrator retires from New England to coastal Georgia and stumbles upon a life-changing moment inside Walmart. These big-hearted people tethered to the places that shape them survive their daily sorrows and absurdities with well-timed laughter; they slouch toward forgiveness, and they point their ears toward the Holy Ghost s last words."