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June 2005
On Sale: June 14, 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 0812971876
EAN: 9780812971873
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Non-Fiction
From an acclaimed and award-winning young writer comes an
intensely moving debut collection set in the eye of life’s
storms. In Corpus Christi, Texas—a town often hit by
hurricanes— parents, children, and lovers come together and
fall apart, bonded and battered by memories of loss that
they feel as acutely as physical pain. A car accident joins strangers linked by an intimate
knowledge of madness. A teenage boy remembers his father’s
act of sudden and self-righteous violence. A “hurricane
party” reunites a couple whom tragedy parted. And, in an
unforgettable three-story cycle, an illness sets in
profound relief a man’s relationship with his mother and
the odd, shifting fidelity of truth to love. Told in fresh, lyrical voices and taut, inventive styles,
these narratives explore the complex volatility of love and
intimacy, sorrow and renewal—and expose how often these
experiences feel like the opposite of themselves. From the
woman whose young son’s uncanny rapport with snakes
illuminates her own missed opportunities to the man
confronting his wife and her lover in a house full of
illegal exotic birds, all the characters here face moments
of profound decision and recognition in which no choice is
clearly or completely right. Writing with tough humor, deep humanity, and a keen eye for
the natural environment, Bret Anthony Johnston creates a
world where where cataclysmic events cut people loose from
their “regular lives, floating and spiraling away from
where we had been the day before.” Corpus Christi is a
extraordinarily ambitious debut. It marks the arrival of an
important, exquisitely talented voice to American fiction.
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