| Author: | Pete Duval | ISBN: | 9781943902040 |
| Publisher: | Massachusetts Review, Inc. | Publication: | May 30, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Pete Duval |
| ISBN: | 9781943902040 |
| Publisher: | Massachusetts Review, Inc. |
| Publication: | May 30, 2016 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Meet Mayhew, protagonist of Pete Duval's "Strange Mercies." Once upon a time in a faraway, Spanish-speaking land, Mayhew has a job to do: document via videotape a young woman whose Christ-like wounds bleed on cue and without scientific explanation, whose street-preacher performances might be exposed as trickery or recorded as real, a mystery we can't explain away, "Strange Mercies" evokes a world of staggering heat and blinding midday light, a world of stray dogs and curlews, "their song beautiful beyond description." From this world something miraculous is made: a modern parable that feels channeled from the ghosts of Fyodor Dostoevsky and John of Patmos.
Praise for Pete Duval
"Duval is an inventive stylist." — Publishers Weekly
"A fresh voice and approach..." — Booklist, ALA
"Intriguing . . . Duval is the master of convincing details." — Boston Globe
Meet Mayhew, protagonist of Pete Duval's "Strange Mercies." Once upon a time in a faraway, Spanish-speaking land, Mayhew has a job to do: document via videotape a young woman whose Christ-like wounds bleed on cue and without scientific explanation, whose street-preacher performances might be exposed as trickery or recorded as real, a mystery we can't explain away, "Strange Mercies" evokes a world of staggering heat and blinding midday light, a world of stray dogs and curlews, "their song beautiful beyond description." From this world something miraculous is made: a modern parable that feels channeled from the ghosts of Fyodor Dostoevsky and John of Patmos.
Praise for Pete Duval
"Duval is an inventive stylist." — Publishers Weekly
"A fresh voice and approach..." — Booklist, ALA
"Intriguing . . . Duval is the master of convincing details." — Boston Globe
