Chris Adrian
A Better Angel
Stories
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The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering-illness, regret, mourning, sympathy-in the most unusual of ways. In Stab, a bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lead him back to his dead brother. In Why Antichrist? a boy tries to contact the spirit of his dead father and finds himself talking to the Devil instead. In the remarkable title story, a ne'er do well pediatrician returns home to take care of his dying father, all the while under the scrutiny of an easily-disappointed heavenly agent.With Gob's Grief and The Children's Hospital, Chris Adrian announced hi…
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The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering-illness, regret, mourning, sympathy-in the most unusual of ways. In Stab, a bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lead him back to his dead brother. In Why Antichrist? a boy tries to contact the spirit of his dead father and finds himself talking to the Devil instead. In the remarkable title story, a ne'er do well pediatrician returns home to take care of his dying father, all the while under the scrutiny of an easily-disappointed heavenly agent.With Gob's Grief and The Children's Hospital, Chris Adrian announced himself as a writer of rare talent and originality. The stories in A Better Angel, some of which have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, and McSweeney's, demonstrate more of his endless inventiveness and wit, and they confirm his growing reputation as a most exciting and unusual literary voice-of heartbreaking, magical, and darkly comic tales.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4299-4231-7
- EAN: 9781429942317
- Produktnummer: 22468324
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'293 KB
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