The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast: New and Selected Stories
John L'Heureux
A sweeping posthumous collection wrestles with faith, irony, and the redemptive nature of love. --Kirkus A nun crashes her car; an unborn child sings to its mother; a troubled priest is in the market for a London apartment. In The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast, John L'Heureux explores head-on life's biggest questions, and the moments--of joy, doubt, transcendence--that alter the course of life. Compiled as he neared the end of his life, and conceived as the legacy of a life's work, The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast brims with elegance, humor, and compassion, welcoming both the ordinary and the rapturous. L'Heureux is a writer of astonishing vision--a master of storytelling and the sentence.Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: John L'HeureuxPublisher: Public Space BooksPublished: 12/03/2019ISBN: 9780998267579Pages: 456Weight: 1.60lbsSize: 8.10h x 6.00w x 1.70dReview Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2019 pg. 13Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 24
Book Title
The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast: New and Selected Stories
ISBN
9780998267579
A sweeping posthumous collection wrestles with faith, irony, and the redemptive nature of love.
--Kirkus A nun crashes her car; an unborn child sings to its mother; a troubled priest is in the market for a London apartment. In The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast, John L'Heureux explores head-on life's biggest questions, and the moments--of joy, doubt, transcendence--that alter the course of life. Compiled as he neared the end of his life, and conceived as the legacy of a life's work, The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast brims with elegance, humor, and compassion, welcoming both the ordinary and the rapturous. L'Heureux is a writer of astonishing vision--a master of storytelling and the sentence.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: John L'Heureux
Publisher: Public Space Books
Published: 12/03/2019
ISBN: 9780998267579
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.00w x 1.70d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2019 pg. 13
Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 24
--Kirkus A nun crashes her car; an unborn child sings to its mother; a troubled priest is in the market for a London apartment. In The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast, John L'Heureux explores head-on life's biggest questions, and the moments--of joy, doubt, transcendence--that alter the course of life. Compiled as he neared the end of his life, and conceived as the legacy of a life's work, The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast brims with elegance, humor, and compassion, welcoming both the ordinary and the rapturous. L'Heureux is a writer of astonishing vision--a master of storytelling and the sentence.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: John L'Heureux
Publisher: Public Space Books
Published: 12/03/2019
ISBN: 9780998267579
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.00w x 1.70d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2019 pg. 13
Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 24
A sweeping posthumous collection wrestles with faith, irony, and the redemptive nature of love.
--Kirkus A nun crashes her car; an unborn child sings to its mother; a troubled priest is in the market for a London apartment. In The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast, John L'Heureux explores head-on life's biggest questions, and the moments--of joy, doubt, transcendence--that alter the course of life. Compiled as he neared the end of his life, and conceived as the legacy of a life's work, The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast brims with elegance, humor, and compassion, welcoming both the ordinary and the rapturous. L'Heureux is a writer of astonishing vision--a master of storytelling and the sentence.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: John L'Heureux
Publisher: Public Space Books
Published: 12/03/2019
ISBN: 9780998267579
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.00w x 1.70d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2019 pg. 13
Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 24
--Kirkus A nun crashes her car; an unborn child sings to its mother; a troubled priest is in the market for a London apartment. In The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast, John L'Heureux explores head-on life's biggest questions, and the moments--of joy, doubt, transcendence--that alter the course of life. Compiled as he neared the end of his life, and conceived as the legacy of a life's work, The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast brims with elegance, humor, and compassion, welcoming both the ordinary and the rapturous. L'Heureux is a writer of astonishing vision--a master of storytelling and the sentence.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: John L'Heureux
Publisher: Public Space Books
Published: 12/03/2019
ISBN: 9780998267579
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.00w x 1.70d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2019 pg. 13
Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 24