The heart is a full-wild beast : and maketh many wild leaps : new and selected stories

Summary: "A nun crashes her car; an unborn child sings to its mother; a troubled priest is in the market for a London apartment. In The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast, John L'Heureux explores head-on life's biggest questions, and the moments--of joy, doubt, transcendence--that alter the course of life. Compiled as he neared the end of his life, and conceived as the legacy of a life's work, The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast brims with elegance, humor, and compassion, welcoming both the ordinary and the rapturous. L'Heureux is a writer of astonishing vision--a master of storytelling and the sentence."--Amazon.com.

Item details

ISBN: 9780998267579
ISBN: 0998267570
Physical Description: print
433 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : A Public Space Books, 2019.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Mysteries. The comedian -- Mutti -- Witness -- The torturer's assistant -- The handmaid -- A few necessary questions -- Answered prayers -- Marriages. The anatomy of bliss -- Benjamin -- A family affair -- Nightfall -- No strings -- On Garby Road -- The priest's wife: Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird -- Doubts. The rise and rise of Annie Clark -- Communion -- The long black line -- Departures -- Clothing -- A kind of happiness -- The expert on God -- Certainties. Roman ordinary -- Sins of thought, sins of desire -- Brief lives in California -- Consolations of philosophy -- Themselves -- The anatomy of desire -- Three short moments in a long life.