Research Catalog

Title

Last words of the Holy Ghost / Matt Cashion.

Author

Cashion, Matthew Deshe,

Publication

Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, 2015.

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Details

Description

200 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"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"--Amazon.com, Nov. 6, 2015.

Series Statement

Number 14 in the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction series

Uniform Title

• Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction series ; no. 14.
• Project Muse UPCC books
• Short stories. Selections

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subject

• Man-woman relationships
• Man-woman relationships > Southern States > Fiction
• Southern States
• Teenage boys
• Teenage boys > Southern States > Fiction
• Teenagers and adults
• Teenagers and adults > Southern States > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Fiction.
• Short stories
• Short stories.

Note

• "2015 WINNER, KATHERINE ANNE PORTER PRIZE IN SHORT FICTION [LEE K. ABBOTT, JUDGE]"--Title page.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Awards (note)

• 2015 Winner, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction.

Contents

The girl who drowned at school that time -- Last words of the Holy Ghost -- Awful pretty -- A serious question -- Penmanship -- Chuck Langford Jr., depressed auctioneer, takes action -- Snell's law -- Nothing ruins a good story like an eyewitness -- Clarissa drives John Boy to the Jacksonville Airport -- Any idiot can feel pain -- What to do when your spouse is burning -- The funeral starts at two.

ISBN

• 9781574416121 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 157441612X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781574416237 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015024783

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library