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019    833301645 
020    9781936747634|q(paperback : acid-free paper) 
020    1936747634|q(paperback : acid-free paper) 
035    (OCoLC)861335345|z(OCoLC)833301645 
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050 00 PS3613.I657|bA6 2014 
082 00 813/.6|223 
100 1  Minor, Kyle. 
240 10 Short stories.|kSelections 
245 10 Praying drunk :|bstories, questions /|cKyle Minor. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 Louisville, Kentucky :|bSarabande Books,|c[2014] 
264  4 |c©2014 
300    196 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
500    "These stories are meant to be read in order"--T.p. verso.
505 00 |gI wish my soul were larger than it is;  |tQuestion of 
       where we begin -- |tYou shall go out with joy and be led 
       forth with peace -- |tTruth and all its ugly -- 
       |tGlossolalia -- |tSeven stories about Sebastian of 
       Kouláev-Ville -- |tQ&A -- |tSweet life -- |gAs I fall past
       , remember me; |tThere is nothing but sadness in Nashville
       -- |tFirst, the teeth -- |tIn a distant country -- |tQ&A -
       - |tSuspended -- |tLay me down in the blue grass. 
520    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. 
650  0 Short stories|vFiction. 
655  0 Short stories. 
994    02|bWHP