A celestial omnibus
A celestial omnibus: short fiction on faith
edited by J. P. Maney and Tom Hazuka
Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, c1997.
ISBN: 0807083356
LCC: PS648
Edition: (pbk.)
Summary:
Twenty-fives stories on faith. In Little Miracles, Kept Promises by
Sandra Cisneros, a Latino community's hopes in Texas are revealed in
letters to the saints, in A Father's Story by Andre Dubus, a man
covers up a deadly hit-and-run to save his daughter from jail, and
Isaac Bashevis Singer's Gimpel the Fool is on a village cuckold.
Notes:
Includes index.
Mystery. Little miracles, kept promises / Sandra Cisneros; A father's
story / Andre Dubus; Christmas / Vladimir Nabokov; Mr. Green; Robert
Olen Butler; The man to send / Leslie Marmon Silko; Rain clouds /
Leslie Marmon Silko -- Doubt. The expert on God / John L'Heureux; The
conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth; Pigeon feathers / John Updike;
Watching her die / Reynolds Price; All stories are true / John Edgar
Wideman -- Evil. Obasan / Joy Kogawa; Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston;
God's world / Najib Mahfuz; Good contry people / Flannery O'Connor;
Act of faith / Irwin Shaw -- The supernatural. Love medicine / Louise
Erdrich; The celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster; On mortality / Maxine
Hong Kingston; The silver crown / Bernard Malamud; The man in the
black suit / Stephen King -- Reconciliation. Cathedral / Raymond
Carver; Zoo animal keeper 1, REC-SVC-ZK / Martha Gies; First
confession / Frank O'Connor; Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer;
Everyday use / Alice Walker.
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