Praying Drunk

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"When the characters residing in Kyle Minor's engrossing and Hvely Praying Drunk find a toehold on the good life, I hope that it's autobiographical, when the characters find themselves enveloped in desperate situations, irreversible circumstances, and despair, I pray that it's solely out of the writer's imagination. These fine stories—up there with the best works of , Padgett Powell, Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover—never straddle a milquetoast fence: they're extreme in humor, extreme in sorrowfulness, and 100% individually-wrapped masterpieces. I am haunted and mesmerized by this collection." —George Singleton, author of Stray Decorum
'Watch Praying Drunk's lovely, lonely people wrestle with Minor's dark God and remember when you too tried to reason with Him and unravel His mysterious commands. These passionate tales, full of longing and daring and honesty, will disturb and inspire you." —Deb Olin Unferth
The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, jiorture their... Tovább

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"When the characters residing in Kyle Minor's engrossing and Hvely Praying Drunk find a toehold on the good life, I hope that it's autobiographical, when the characters find themselves enveloped in desperate situations, irreversible circumstances, and despair, I pray that it's solely out of the writer's imagination. These fine stories—up there with the best works of , Padgett Powell, Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover—never straddle a milquetoast fence: they're extreme in humor, extreme in sorrowfulness, and 100% individually-wrapped masterpieces. I am haunted and mesmerized by this collection." —George Singleton, author of Stray Decorum
'Watch Praying Drunk's lovely, lonely people wrestle with Minor's dark God and remember when you too tried to reason with Him and unravel His mysterious commands. These passionate tales, full of longing and daring and honesty, will disturb and inspire you." —Deb Olin Unferth
The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, jiorture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. A man crushes pills on the bathroom counter while his son watches from the hallway; missionaries clumsily navigate an uprising with barbed wire and broken gkss; a boy disparages memorized scripture, facedown on the asphalt, as he fails to fend off his bully. From Kentucky to Florida to Haiti, these seemingly disparate lives are woven together within a series of nested repetitions, enacting the struggle to remain physically and spiritually alive throughout the untamable turbulence of their worlds. In a masterful blend of fiction, autobiography, and surrealism, Kyle Minor shows us that the space between fearlessness and terror is often very small. Long before Praying Drunk reaches its plaintive, pitch-pejfect end. Minor estabUshes himself ágain and again as one of the most talented younger writers in America. Vissza