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A Better Angel: Stories

A Better Angel: Stories

Name: A Better Angel: Stories
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Chris Adrian
ISBN: 9780312428532

Chris Adrian

21/07/2009
Picador Usa

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de A Better Angel: Stories par Chris Adrian

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE In this inventive collection of stories, Chris Adrian treads the terrain of human suffering--illness, regret, mourning, sympathy--in the most unusual ways. 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. A boy tries to contact the spirit of his dead father and finds himself talking to the Devil instead. 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 A Better Angel's cast of living and dead characters, at once otherworldly and painfully human, Adrian has created a haunting work of spectral beauty and wit. Biographie de l'auteur Chris Adrian is the author of Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, A Better Angel, and The Great Night. Selected by The New Yorker as one of their 20 Under 40, he lives in San Francisco, where he is a fellow in pediatric hematology-oncology.