
The Visibility of Things Long Submerged
by George Looney
Title:
The Visibility of Things Long Submerged
Author:
George Looney
Series (if any):
American Reader Series
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
184 pages, Illustrations
Publisher:
BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN-13:
9781950774944
EAN:
9781950774944
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
310
Dimensions (mm):
133 x 203 x 13
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
From poet George Looney comes a new short story collection that explores the essential nature of faith while plumbing the gritty secrets of the human heart. With swamps, alligators, revival tents, faith healers, sex, death, guilt, sin and snakes, Looney leads us through a dark landscape brimming with the miraculous and the peculiar alike. A man from a fire shows up on someone's doorstep, covered in ash and barely alive. One man's actions make an entire town question its own violence. A healer is bitten in half by an alligator as a crowd looks on. Dripping with Southern gothic, The Visibility of Things Long Submerged gazes at the obscure and obscene. Densely populated with characters that know intimately the trials of life and the restorative powers of love, these stories are filled with a deep longing for something beyond the restless disquiet.











