The Business of Naming Things

• Book ID: 126938122
• Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 49 KB
• Category: Standards

✦ Synopsis

Among these eight stories, a fan of writer (and fellow adoptee) Harold Brodkey gains an audience with him at his life’s end, two pals take a Joycean sojourn, a man whose business is naming things meets a woman who may not be what she seems, and a father discovers his son is a suspect in an assassination attempt on the president. In each tale, Michael Coffey’s exquisite attention to character underlies the brutally honest perspectives of his disenchanted fathers, damaged sons, and orphans left feeling perpetually disconnected.

✦ Subjects

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