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Author Dabney Stuart best summarizes this debut novel ''as relentless as Euripides, or Faulkner, whose 'As I Lay Dying' is its formal model. Its central preoccupation is the sins (or in more secular terms, 'behavior patterns') of fathers and mothers passing into the lives of their offspring. It also reminds us how many people, living and dead, ghost our daily experience, complication and enriching our choices. Barton includes the dimension of mercy, too---the mutual forgiveness of failures by family members who, finally, find ways to realize they can't live without each other. An impressive, uncompromising book.''
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Marlin Barton has published two collections of short stories, ''The Dry Well'' and ''Dancing by the River,'' and two novels, ''A Broken Thing'' and ''The Cross Garden.'' His stories have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including ''Shenandoah,'' ''The Southern Review,'' ''The Sewanee Review,'' ''Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards,'' and ''The Best American Short Stories.'' In 1916 he was the first recipient of the Truman Capote Prize for Short Fiction by an Alabama author.
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A wonderful, quietly powerful novel that continues to resonate long after the last page is read. It is a marvelously compelling read. --Wayne Greenhaw, author of ''My Heart Is in the Earth'''
A moving book. Marlin Barton is a fine talent with a compelling story to tell. --Nanci Kincaid, author of ''Vernena''
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- PublisherFrederic C Beil
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1929490208
- ISBN 13 9781929490202
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages258
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