Last Words of the Holy Ghost: Volume 14 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781574416121)

Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2015.

Funny, heartbreaking, and real--these twelve stories showcase a dynamic range of voices belonging to characters who can't stop confessing. They are obsessive storytellers, disturbed professors, depressed auctioneers, gambling clergy. A fourteen-year-old boy gets baptized and speaks in tongues to win the love of a girl who ushers him into adulthood; a troubled insomniac searches the woods behind his mother's house for the "awful pretty" singing that begins each midnight; a school-system employee plans a year-end party at the site of a child's drowning; a burned-out health-care administrator retires from New England to coastal Georgia and stumbles upon a life-changing moment inside Walmart. These big-hearted people--tethered to the places that shape them--survive their daily sorrows and absurdities with well-timed laughter; they slouch toward forgiveness, and they point their ears toward the Holy Ghost's last words.

Author: Matthew Cashion
ISBN-10: 157441612X
ISBN-13: 9781574416121
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Language: English
Published: 10/05/2015
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2015