The End of the Straight and Narrow by David Mcglynn

The End of the Straight and Narrow by David Mcglynn

This debut collection received critical acclaim and is now available for the first time in trade paper. The stories in The End of the Straight and Narrow take on the inner lives of the zealous, their passions and desires, and the ways religious faith is both the compass for navigating daily life and the force that makes ordinary life impossible.



In "Landslide," an aspiring evangelist witnesses the miraculous event that launches his career, but fails to notice the mental decline of his college roommate. In "Moonland on Fire," a divorced, born-again father, his new wife, and his estranged teenage son battle to save their dilapidated home from a massive fire. In "Deep in the Heart" a dying boy reveals his final wish to his estranged parents: he wants to kill a deer. In "Seventeen One-Hundredths of a Second" an aging virgin is drawn into a precarious friendship. The five linked stories that comprise the collection's latter half focus on a woman blinded suddenly while giving birth, who years later begins a process of disappearing that confuses her family and leads to ultimately violent and disintegrating ends.



Ranging from the coastal highways of Southern California, to the mountains above Salt Lake City, to the swampy bayous and pine forests surrounding Houston, Texas, the stories often take place against the backdrop of disaster--a landslide, a fire, a drowning, a hurricane--as the characters question whether faith illuminates the world or leaves them isolated within it.

McGlynn, David: - DAVID MCGLYNN is the author of the memoir A Door in the Ocean and the story collection The End of the Straight and Narrow, winner of the 2008 Utah Book Award for Fiction. Recent work--including excerpts from One Day You'll Thank Me--has appeared in The New York Times, Men's Health, O, The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Parents, and elsewhere. Three of his essays have been named Notable Essays in the Best American Essays anthology and another, Rough Water, appeared in Best American Sports Writing in 2009. He teaches at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.

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ISBN 13	9781619021501
ISBN 10	1619021501
Title	The End of the Straight and Narrow
Author	David Mcglynn
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Counterpoint
Year published	2013-06-25
Number of pages	224
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