โ Bond, Ruskin
๐ Fiction
๐
2016
๐ Rupa Publications
๐ English
โ 124 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Heaven of Animals: Stories
โ Scribed by David James Poissant
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 251 KB
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1476729980
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Named one of Amazonโs Best Short Story Collections of 2014
One of Atlanta Journal Constitutionโs 9 Best Books of 2014
Best Short Story Collection of the Year, Tweed's Magazine
In each of the stories in this remarkable debut, award-winning writer David James Poissant explores the tenuous bonds of familyโfathers and sons, husbands and wivesโas they are tested by the sometimes brutal power of love.
His strikingly true-to-life characters have reached a precipice, chased there by troubles of their own making. Standing at the brink, each must make a choice: Leap, or look away? Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin writes that Poissant forces us โto face the people we are when weโre alone in the dark.โ
From two friends racing to save the life of an alligator in โLizard Manโ to a girl helping her boyยญfriend face his greatest fears in โThe End of Aaron,โ from a man who stalks death...
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