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The Old Priest (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize)
Anthony Wallace
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Description for The Old Priest (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize)
Hardcover. Series: Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
The Old Priest is a book of transformations. From the cigar-smoke-and-mirrors world of casino life, to the collection's title character morphing into a goat-man before the narrator's eyes, to a family drama upended by a miniature dinosaur in the backyard, Anthony Wallace writes about life-changing events. The characters seek to escape their earthly boundaries through artifice and fantasy, and those boundaries can be as elegant and fragile as a martini glass or as hardscrabble as an Indian reservation. In these eight vividly detailed short stories we encounter cheating husbands, neurotic housewives, out-of-control teenagers, desperate gamblers, deluded alcoholics, and a host ... Read more
The Old Priest is a book of transformations. From the cigar-smoke-and-mirrors world of casino life, to the collection's title character morphing into a goat-man before the narrator's eyes, to a family drama upended by a miniature dinosaur in the backyard, Anthony Wallace writes about life-changing events. The characters seek to escape their earthly boundaries through artifice and fantasy, and those boundaries can be as elegant and fragile as a martini glass or as hardscrabble as an Indian reservation. In these eight vividly detailed short stories we encounter cheating husbands, neurotic housewives, out-of-control teenagers, desperate gamblers, deluded alcoholics, and a host ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Series
Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822944294
SKU
V9780822944294
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About Anthony Wallace
Anthony Wallace is a senior lecturer in the Arts and Sciences Writing Program at Boston University, where he is codirector of Arts Now, a curriculum-based initiative to support the arts at BU. He has published poetry and short fiction in a number of liter
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