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God : stories / edited by C. Michael Curtis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.Description: xiv, 400 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0395929717 (paper)
  • 9780395929711 (paper)
  • 0395926777 (cloth)
  • 9780395926772 (cloth)
  • 0618387935 (pbk.)
  • 9780618387939 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS648.R44 G64 1998
Contents:
Exodus / James Baldwin -- Design / Richard Bausch -- A new life / Mary Ward Brown -- A father's story / Andre Dubus -- Satan : hijacker of a planet / Louise Erdrich -- Redemption / John Gardner -- The knife / Brendan Gill -- God's typhoon / John Hersey -- The question of rain / William Hoffman -- Grace / James Joyce -- Idiots first / Bernard Malamud -- The retreat / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Pictures of the ice / Alice Munro -- Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor -- Rosa / Cynthia Ozick -- The pure in heart / Peggy Payne -- The rabbi in the attic / Eileen Pollack -- Roof work / Joe Ashby Porter -- Zeal / J.F. Powers -- Defender of the faith / Philip Roth -- A Christian education / Elizabeth Spencer -- Autumn sunshine / William Trevor -- Made in heaven / John Updike -- A still moment / Eudora Welty -- The missing person / Tobias Wolff.
Summary: A collection of stories on God. In Made in Heaven by John Updike a non-believer finds himself attracted to believers, while in Parker's Back by Flannery O'Connor an estranged husband has himself tattooed with the picture of Jesus to get into the good books of his religious wife.
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"A Mariner original."

Exodus / James Baldwin -- Design / Richard Bausch -- A new life / Mary Ward Brown -- A father's story / Andre Dubus -- Satan : hijacker of a planet / Louise Erdrich -- Redemption / John Gardner -- The knife / Brendan Gill -- God's typhoon / John Hersey -- The question of rain / William Hoffman -- Grace / James Joyce -- Idiots first / Bernard Malamud -- The retreat / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Pictures of the ice / Alice Munro -- Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor -- Rosa / Cynthia Ozick -- The pure in heart / Peggy Payne -- The rabbi in the attic / Eileen Pollack -- Roof work / Joe Ashby Porter -- Zeal / J.F. Powers -- Defender of the faith / Philip Roth -- A Christian education / Elizabeth Spencer -- Autumn sunshine / William Trevor -- Made in heaven / John Updike -- A still moment / Eudora Welty -- The missing person / Tobias Wolff.

A collection of stories on God. In Made in Heaven by John Updike a non-believer finds himself attracted to believers, while in Parker's Back by Flannery O'Connor an estranged husband has himself tattooed with the picture of Jesus to get into the good books of his religious wife.

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