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absurdist short stories
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American existential fiction
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Caribbean port city fiction
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characters grappling with sin
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cosmic struggle narratives
crisis of belief literature
decaying American landscapes in fiction
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desert and highway literary settings
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existential short story collection
faith-challenged protagonists
faith-tested characters
fiction set in forgotten strip malls
flawed clergy in literature
gritty yet mystical narratives
hallucinatory prose style
heretical characters in literature
interfaith conflicts in fiction
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literary depictions of miracles
literary fiction for philosophy lovers
literary portraits of suburban life
literature of faith and doubt
lyrical and dark storytelling
metaphysical fiction
modern mythmaking in fiction
moral ambiguity in literature
morally complex characters
mystic figures in contemporary stories
mystical elements in short stories
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parrot symbolism in literature
philosophical storytelling
postmodern literature
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priest character in fiction
protagonists facing divine silence
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religious symbolism in fiction
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spiritual ambiguity in literature
spiritual crises in modern America
spiritual noir fiction
spiritual wanderers in fiction
stories rooted in small-town strangeness
surreal realism literature
surreal road trip fiction
surreal short stories
surrealism in modern fiction
theology-inspired narratives
unsettling American short stories
urban faith crises in literature
visionary short fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781625345707
- Weight: 278g
- Dimensions: 137 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 26 Mar 2021
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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An insurance lawyer driving across Iowa engages a wounded, hitchhiking priest in a metaphysical debate. A vacationing air traffic controller with a penchant for Saint Francis of Assisi is bitten by an ancient parrot. The Marxist owner of a Florida curiosity shop confronts a local church community's rising anger over a jarred fetus, while a fasting husband of an evangelical minister holds bloody communion with the leader of a suburban coyote pack and a Catholic cable news cameraman tracks a missing stigmatist through a Caribbean port city. As cosmic struggles play out against the backdrop of forgotten strip malls, suburban cul-de-sacs, and grimy cities, guidance comes from the unlikeliest of sources. In prose both dreamlike and vivid, the characters in Pete Duval's second collection navigate paths through a landscape of vestigial faith and nagging doubt.
Pete Duval is author of the short-story collection Rear View, which won the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize and the Connecticut Book Award. The recipient of two Connecticut artist grants and fellowships from the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Duval is associate professor of English at West Chester University. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Ascent, the Massachusetts Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Witness, Chelsea, Exquisite Corpse, and Appalachian Heritage, among other venues.
