Angels Prostate Fall

Terry, Marshall

ISBN 10: 0870744631 / ISBN 13: 9780870744631

Published by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, 2001

About this Item

Signed (writing Marsh) and inscribed by author on title page. First edition, first printing. Hard cover published by SMU Press in 2001. Book is in very good condition. Dust jacket has some creasing along top edge and is in good plus condition.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 163 pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # MST6564

Bibliographic Details

Title: Angels Prostate Fall

Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good+

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

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Synopsis:

Stanley Morris, a winsome, aging professor of writing and literature, secure in his context as a loyalist in his university, discovers he has cancer of the prostate. This strikes him as absurd, not to mention unbelievable. He immediately decides to have it removed, and goes through the preliminary tests and giving of blood, which sequence becomes a theater of the absurd. As he is coming back into consciousness after the operation, his mind and imagination are filled with images and memories of these who have died before him - his half-brother, his mother. Back at home, with his wife's support, he tries to recover his old "self," his identity as a person and a teacher. When he goes back to the campus, he slowly becomes engaged again in the life of his university and accepts a new challenge from the incoming woman dean.

Reviews:

The awkward pun in the title of this comic novel suggests much about what lies within. In Angels Prostate Fall by Marshall Terry, an English professor at a Texas university, has prostate cancer and describes in elaborate detail the operation he undergoes and its aftermath (" `Here's your diaper,' the nurse Amanda says. `You had better wear it home' "). Terry writes with verve and style, but his subject limits the reach of his tale. Fellow sufferers will appreciate his humorous meditations on his condition, but others may prefer to steer clear.

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