{"product_id":"last-words-of-the-holy-matthew-cashion-9781574416121","title":"Last Words of the Holy Ghost: Volume 14","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2015.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Cashion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 157441612X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781574416121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2015","brand":"Matthew Cashion","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48518915326207,"sku":"9781574416121","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7335939b-6b7b-4173-ac3d-60e2923bf809.jpg?v=1778736141","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/last-words-of-the-holy-matthew-cashion-9781574416121","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}