The Business of Naming Things

✍ Scribed by Coffey, Michael

• Book ID: 108579892
• Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 302 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781934137871

✦ Synopsis

"Riveting . . . vibrant and unsparing." --Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)
"Superb. . . . Startlingly original." --Library Journal (starred review)
"Once I started reading these stories, I couldn't stop. They absorbed me thoroughly, with their taut narratives and evocative language--the language of a poet." --JAY PARINI , author of Jesus: The Human Face of God and The Last Station
"Sherwood Anderson would recognize this world of lonely, longing characters, whose surface lives Coffey tenderly plumbs. These beautiful stories--spare, rich, wise and compelling--go to the heart." --FREDERIC TUTEN , author of Self Portraits: Fictions and Tintin in the New World
"Whether [Coffey is] writing about a sinning priest or a man who's made a career out of branding or about himself, we can smell Coffey's protagonists and feel their breath on...