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A Better Angel: Stories
Contributor(s): Adrian, Chris (Author)
ISBN: 0312428537     ISBN-13: 9780312428532
Publisher: Picador USA
OUR PRICE:   $18.00  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2009
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Annotation: The stories in "A Better Angel" describe the terrain of human suffering--illness, regret, mourning, sympathy--in the most unusual of ways, from an author heralded for his wit and inventiveness.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 4.98" W x 7.88" (0.48 lbs) 240 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Adrian, Chris: - 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.