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The Viewing Room (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)
Jacquelin Gorman
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Description for The Viewing Room (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)
Hardcover. "Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction." Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
In The Viewing Room, two hospital chaplains console the living during the moments when they look upon their beloved dead for one last time in a large urban hospital in Los Angeles. But this room is also a character, linking stories together and bearing witness in chilling testimony of grief and wisdom. Henrietta and Maurice, the chaplains, are ministers who have lost their faith due to devastating personal tragedy. Still, they regain their hold on their own lives through their work, one death at a time. Jacquelin Gorman lays bare nine parallel worlds of suffering in stories of unflinching detail, ... Read more
In The Viewing Room, two hospital chaplains console the living during the moments when they look upon their beloved dead for one last time in a large urban hospital in Los Angeles. But this room is also a character, linking stories together and bearing witness in chilling testimony of grief and wisdom. Henrietta and Maurice, the chaplains, are ministers who have lost their faith due to devastating personal tragedy. Still, they regain their hold on their own lives through their work, one death at a time. Jacquelin Gorman lays bare nine parallel worlds of suffering in stories of unflinching detail, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820345482
SKU
V9780820345482
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About Jacquelin Gorman
Jacquelin Gorman is the author of The Seeing Glass, a memoir. She grew up in a family of physicians in the shadow of Johns Hopkins Hospital and spent a great deal of time in Maryland’s hospitals as a girl. She has practised as a health-care lawyer in Los Angeles and as a hospital chaplain, she is currently the programme director ... Read more
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