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240 pages • first pub 2008 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374289904
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering—illness, regret, mourning, sympathy—in the most unusual of ways. In “Stab,” a bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow...
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240 pages • first pub 2008 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374289904
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering—illness, regret, mourning, sympathy—in the most unusual of ways. In “Stab,” a bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow...