The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast
John L'Heureux
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
John L'Heureux spent his long, prolific career exploring questions of morality and faith in stories that entertain, surprise, and sometimes disturb; and The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast compiles the enduring stories of a distinctive American writer.
A sweeping posthumous collection wrestles with faith, irony, and the redemptive nature of love.
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Kirkus
A nun crashes her car; an unborn child sings to its mother; a troubled priest is in the market for a London apartment. In
The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast, John L’Heureux explores head-on life’s biggest questions, and the moments—of joy, doubt, transcendence—that alter the course of life. Compiled as he neared the end of his life, and conceived as the legacy of a life’s work, The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast brims with elegance, humor, and compassion, welcoming both the ordinary and the rapturous. L’Heureux is a writer of astonishing vision—a master of storytelling and the sentence.
Kundenbewertungen
Ron Hansen, California, Roman Catholicism, Stanford, Joy Williams, creative writing, short fiction, Jesuit, stigmata, death with dignity