A Better Angel

By: Chris Adrian

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Paperback | 7 June 2012 | Edition Number 1

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240 Pages

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19.8 x 13.2 x 1.6

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'Enriches and enlarges our own sense of the world we thought we knew' Marilynne Robinson

In this inventive collection of stories, Chris Adrian treads the terrain of human suffering -illness, regret, mourning, sympathy - in the most unusual ways. A bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lead him back to his dead brother. A boy tries to contact the spirit of his dead father and finds himself talking to the Devil instead. A ne'er-do-well paediatrician returns home to take care of his dying father, all the while under the scrutiny of an easily-disappointed heavenly agent.

With A Better Angel's cast of living and dead characters, at once otherworldly and painfully human, Adrian has created a haunting work of spectral beauty and wit.

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