A Better Angel

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In this inventive collection of stories, Chris Adrian treads the terrain of human suffering--illness, regret, mourning, sympathy--in the most unusual ways. A bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lead him back to his dead brother. A boy tries to contact the spirit of his dead father and finds himself talking to the Devil instead. A ne'er-do-well pediatrician returns home to take care of his dying father, all the while under the scrutiny of an easily-disappointed heavenly agent. With A Better Angel's cast of living and dead characters, at once otherworldly and painfully human, Adrian has created a haunting work of spectral beauty and wit.

Author: Chris Adrian
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 07/21/2009
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.88h x 4.98w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780312428532

Review Citation(s):
BookPage 08/01/2009

About the Author

CHRIS ADRIAN is the author of Gob's Grief and The Children's Hospital.

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