Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781733973083
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2021
Publisher: A Public Space


Description:


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, humour, and compassion, welcoming both the ordinary and the rapturous. L'Heureux is a writer of astonishing vision — a master of storytelling and the sentence.

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.' — Kirkus, starred review

'Howling, savagely powerful short stories [that] dramatise the brutal collisions of divine will and human nature. They abound in grace.'— Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal


'This collection is luminous and breathtaking, varied and delightful and surprising, scattering perfectly shaped gems before us.' —Financial Times


'Darkly funny, bittersweet, audacious, tender... it is so sad to think that we will have no more short stories from this master of the form.'— Joyce Carol Oates