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An edition of News of the spirit (1997)

News of the spirit

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In "Live Bottomless," thirteen-year-old Jenny tells the painful and hilarious tale of her philandering father's fall from grace and the family's subsequent trip to Keys West as her parents attempt a "geographical cure" for their troubled marriage.

In "The Southern Cross," Chanel, a girl of easy virtue and dubious reputation, chronicles her cruise around the Caribbean with three Atlanta developers. "I may be old, but I'm not dead," begins Alice Scully, scandalizing her retirement-home writers' group in "The Happy Memories Club." And prim, old-maid Sarah is titillated by the housekeeper's horrific account of her daughter's "blue wedding.".

In "The Bubba Stories," Charlene Christian explains, "I made Bubba up in the spring of 1963 in order to increase my popularity with my girlfriends"; but this legendary brother takes on a life of his own. Paula's damaged brother Johnny, in the title story, is "writing a new kind of book," constructing another narrative of his tragic life. Brothers, sisters, and friends appear in these stories as the narrators' other selves, offering other possibilities.

Here we have news of the spirit, indeed: stories about longing and despair and imagination and grace, about love in all its strange and shifting forms.

Publish Date
Publisher
Putnam
Language
English
Pages
267

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Cover of: News of the spirit
News of the spirit
1998, Fawcett Columbine
in English - 1st Ballantine books ed.
Cover of: News of the spirit
News of the spirit
1997, Putnam
in English

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Table of Contents

The Bubba stories
Blue wedding
Live bottomless
The southern cross
The happy memories club
News of the spirit.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3569.M5376 N48 1997, PS3569.M5376N48 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
267 p. ;
Number of pages
267

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL666005M
Internet Archive
newsofspirit00smit
ISBN 10
0399142819
LCCN
97011660
OCLC/WorldCat
36648648
Library Thing
238731
Goodreads
2167874

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