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The Heaven Of Animals

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In each of the stories in this remarkable debut, award-winning writer David James Poissant explores the tenuous bonds of family - fathers and sons, husbands and wives - as 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 "to face the people we are when we're alone in the dark." From two friends racing to save the life of an alligator in "Lizard Man" to a girl helping her boy-friend face his greatest fears in "The End of Aaron," from a man who stalks death on an Atlanta street corner to a brother's surprise at the surreal, improbable beauty of a late night encounter with a wolf, Poissant creates worlds that shine with honesty and dark complexity, but also with a profound compassion. These are stories hell-bent on hope. Fresh, smart, lively, and wickedly funny, The Heaven of Animals is startlingly original and compulsively readable.

Product Overview
ISBN 9781476729961
Categories Anthologies, Fiction, New Arrivals, Short Stories and Poetry
Author(s) Simon and Schuster
Publisher Poissant, David James
Weight 0.0 kg