| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
196 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"These stories are meant to be read in order"--T.p. verso. |
| Contents |
I wish my soul were larger than it is; Question of where we begin -- You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace -- Truth and all its ugly -- Glossolalia -- Seven stories about Sebastian of Kouláev-Ville -- Q&A -- Sweet life -- As I fall past, remember me; There is nothing but sadness in Nashville -- First, the teeth -- In a distant country -- Q&A -- Suspended -- Lay me down in the blue grass. |
| Summary |
The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. A man crushes pills on the bathroom counter while his son watches from the hallway; missionaries clumsily navigate an uprising with barbed wire and broken glass; a boy disparages memorized scripture, facedown on the asphalt, as he fails to fend off his bully. From Kentucky to Florida to Haiti, these seemingly disparate lives are woven together within a series of nested repetitions, enacting the struggle to remain physically and spiritually alive throughout the untamable turbulence of their worlds. |
| Subject |
Short stories -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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| ISBN |
9781936747634 (paperback : acid-free paper) |
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1936747634 (paperback : acid-free paper) |
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