ISBN 1-929490-20-8
Hardcover
272 pages
6 3/4 x 8 3/8"
$24.95
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A Broken Thing
by Marlin Barton
"Marlin Barton's first novel is as relentless as Euripides, or Faulkner, whose As I Lay Dying is its formal model. Its central preoccupation is the sins (or in more secular terms, 'behavior patterns') of fathers and mothers passing into the lives of their offspring. It also reminds us how many people, living and dead, ghost our daily experience, complicating and enriching our choices. Barton includes the dimension of mercy, too—the mutual forgiveness of failures by family members who, finally, find ways to realize they can't live without each other. An impressive, uncompromising book."—Dabney Stuart, former editor of Shenandoah and author of No Visible Means of Support
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