From an acclaimed and award-winning young writer comes an intensely moving debut collection set in the eye of lifeâ€™s storms. In Corpus Christi, Texasâ€”a town often hit by

Corpus Christi: Stories
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From an acclaimed and award-winning young writer comes an intensely moving debut collection set in the eye of lifeâ€™s storms. In Corpus Christi, Texasâ€”a town often hit by hurricanesâ€” parents, children, and lovers come together and fall apart, bonded and battered by memories of loss that they feel as acutely as physical pain.

A car accident joins strangers linked by an intimate knowledge of madness. A teenage boy remembers his fatherâ€™s act of sudden and self-righteous violence. A â€œhurricane partyâ€ reunites a couple whom tragedy parted. And, in an unforgettable three-story cycle, an illness sets in profound relief a manâ€™s relationship with his mother and the odd, shifting fidelity of truth to love.

Told in fresh, lyrical voices and taut, inventive styles, these narratives explore the complex volatility of love and intimacy, sorrow and renewalâ€”and expose how often these experiences feel like the opposite of themselves. From the woman whose young sonâ€™s uncanny rapport with snakes illuminates her own missed opportunities to the man confronting his wife and her lover in a house full of illegal exotic birds, all the characters here face moments of profound decision and recognition in which no choice is clearly or completely right.

Writing with tough humor, deep humanity, and a keen eye for the natural environment, Bret Anthony Johnston creates a world where where cataclysmic events cut people loose from their â€œregular lives, floating and spiraling away from where we had been the day before.â€ Corpus Christi is a extraordinarily ambitious debut. It marks the arrival of an important, exquisitely talented voice to American fiction.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0812971876_used
Color Sky/Pale blue
ReleaseDate 2005-06-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812971873

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0812971876_used
Color	Sky/Pale blue
ReleaseDate	2005-06-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812971873

Corpus Christi: Stories

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