| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
433 pages ; 21 cm |
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| Summary |
"A nun crashes her car; an unborn child sings to its mother; a troubled priest is in the market for a London apartment. In The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast, John L'Heureux explores head-on life's biggest questions, and the moments - of joy, doubt, transcendence - that alter the course of life. Compiled as he neared the end of his life, and conceived as the legacy of a life's work, The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast brims with elegance, humor, and compassion, welcoming both the ordinary and the rapturous. L'Heureux is a writer of astonishing vision - a master of storytelling and the sentence."--Amazon.com. |
| Contents |
Mysteries. The comedian ; Mutti ; Witness ; The torturer's assistant ; The handmaid ; A few necessary questions ; Answered prayers -- Marriages. The anatomy of bliss ; Benjamin ; A family affair ; Nightfall ; No strings ; On Garby Road ; The priest's wife: Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird -- Doubts. The rise and rise of Annie Clark ; Communion ; The long black line ; Departures ; Clothing ; A kind of happiness ; The expert on God -- Certainties. Roman ordinary ; Sins of thought, sins of desire ; Brief lives in California ; Consolations of philosophy ; Themselves ; The anatomy of desire ; Three short moments in a long life. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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| ISBN |
9780998267579 (hardcover) : $28.00 |
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0998267570 (hardcover) |
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