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050 00 $aPS3561.E4228$bA6 2020
082 00 $a813/.54$223
100 1 $aKenan, Randall,$eauthor.
240 10 $aShort stories.$kSelections
245 10 $aIf I had two wings :$bstories /$cRandall Kenan.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bW. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,$c[2020]
264 4 $c©2020
300 $a211 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
505 00 $tWhen We All Get to Heaven --$tI Thought I Heard the Shuffle of Angels' Feet --$tThe Eternal Glory That Is Ham Hocks --$tAin't No Sunshine -- Ezekiel Saw the Wheel --$tMamiwata --$tResurrection Hardware; or, Lard & Promises --$tThe Acts of Velmajean Swearington Hoyt and the New City of God --$tNow Why Come That Is? --$tGod's Gonna Trouble the Water; or, Where is Marisol?
520 $a"Ten heavenly stories that chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives. When Randall Kenan's first collection was published, The New York Times called it "nothing short of a wonder-book." With comparable inventiveness but seasoned by maturity and shot through with humor, his second collection, If I Had Two Wings, riffs on the human relationship with the transcendent. Rooted in Kenan's fictional territory of Tims Creek, NC, this book also travels to more "sophisticated" places, as these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives: a retired North Carolinian on a church trip to Manhattan, taking in life with gentle curiosity, who is befriended by Billy Idol in "When We All Get to Heaven"; the woman whose cooking sparked an eternal hunger in Howard Hughes, in "The Eternal Glory that is Ham Hocks"; a gay man returns from a glamorous life in DC to cope with an ornery uncle in a nursing home in "I Thought I Heard the Shuffle of an Angel's Feed"; and in "The Acts of Velmajean Swearington Hoyt and the New City of God," an elderly woman turned miracle worker, through a grace either divine or diabolical. A rich chorus of voices marked by grit, humor, suffering, and joie de vivre, If I Had Two Wings is a fully satisfying provocation and delight"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aAngels$vFiction.
651 0 $aNorth Carolina$xSocial life and customs$vFiction.
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650 7 $aManners and customs.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01007815
651 7 $aNorth Carolina.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204304
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