Dog on the Cross: Stories

Dog on the Cross: Stories

by Aaron Gwyn
Dog on the Cross: Stories

Dog on the Cross: Stories

by Aaron Gwyn

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Overview

A man miraculously survives a fall from the eighth floor of a drilling rig but is ever after plagued by an unwillingness to live. A preacher loses his ability to speak in tongues and begins to fake it. A young man is intent on suppressing his sinful love for his best friend even though he can think of nothing else. A teenage boy struggles with the temptation of a young girl. A grandmother will stop at nothing to make her grandson famous. These are some of the good citizens of Perser, Oklahoma. And in Aaron Gwyn's debut collection, the people of Perser are unpredictable and unforgettable as they struggle with lapses into sin during the week a young faith healer comes to town.

In his careful articulation of faith and doubt, sin and self-delusion, allegiance to the church and self-glorification, Gwyn reveals himself as a writer of great heart and complexity, creating a world that burns with pain, love, and an odd kind of devotion.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781565124127
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 01/03/2004
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 711,044
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.96(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Aaron Gwyn's stories have been published in Louisiana Literature, Glimmer Train, and Black Warrior Review and anthologized in New Stories from the South. He is currently at work on his first novel, Ink, about a tattoo repair artist. He lives with his wife in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he is an Assistant Professor of American Literature at UNC-Charlotte.

Table of Contents

Of Falling1
Courtship20
The Offering61
Against the Pricks82
Truck104
In Tongues130
The Backsliders156
Dog on the Cross180

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From the Publisher

"The characters moving through Dog on the Cross will haunt you long after you put it down. They'll enter your dreams the way the best, most truthful gospel does."
—Tom Franklin, author of Hell a the Breech

"There aren't many writers anymore seriously considering old-testament-style sin and the possibility of redemption—of damnation even—in their work. Fewer still do so with as much wisdom and compassion as Aaron Gwyn. This is Flannery O'Connor territory and most writers suffer by comparison. Gwyn does not. Dog on the Cross is a stunning debut."
—Michael Knight, author of Goodnight, Nobody

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