Kneeling Bus

Coyle, Beverly

ISBN 10: 0899199321 / ISBN 13: 9780899199320

Edité par Ticknor & Fields, 1990

Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. N° de réf. du vendeur I10A-03287

Synopsis :

Carrie struggles with scandal, doubt, and grace as the daughter of an undynamic minister grows up in 1950s Florida and comes of age under the broad umbrella of Methodism

Présentation de l'éditeur: “Perfect, dazzling stories that show you the world in a way you’ve never ever seen before.” –Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times
 
These eight connected stories depict Carrie Willis’s coming-of-age as the daughter of a liberal minister in the Florida of the 1950s. Beverly Coyle’s tropical landscape is quietly rural, relentlessly Methodist –lovely, lovely, and self-doubting. Her writing is as intimate as a memoir, and her stories take odd, voyeuristic turns: we meet Carrie’s grandmother, a Seventh-day Adventist convert, much to the consternation of her family; a boy who feeds his pet leeches from blood-filled rubber gloves; the daughter of wealthy orchid growers who is killed by a truck on a rainy highway; and Carrie’s great-aunt Dove, who falls for a con man who preaches the miracle of Direct Dialing. Actually arranging a promised call to Dr. Norman Vincent Peale may be the one honest thing he does.
 
By turns hilarious, poignant, and heart-wrenching, The Kneeling Bus chronicles the small shames and deep mortifications of a narrator who once dreamed herself into a mission field of the Congo—before she lost her nerve.
 
“Beverly Coyle employs so light a touch in this warm and wise novel that it completely charms us long before we feel how much it has taught us.”—St. Petersburg Times

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Kneeling Bus
Éditeur : Ticknor & Fields
Date d'édition : 1990
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette