Chris Adrian

A Better Angel (eBook, ePUB)

Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429942317
• Artikelnr.: 39933888

Autorenporträt

Chris Adrian is the author Gob’s Grief and The Children’s Hospital. He lives in Boston, where he is a pediatrician and divinity student.