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Chris Adrian (Author)
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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.
Author Biography
CHRIS ADRIAN is the author of Gob’s Grief and The Children’s Hospital.
Number of Pages: 240Dimensions: 0.63 x 7.88 x 4.98 INPublication Date: July 21, 2009
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