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03128aam a22004578i 4500 001 68EA2E8EDDF311EABC11822697128E48 003 SILO 005 20200814010009 008 191231t20202020nyu 000 j eng 010 $a 2019050476 020 $a 1324005467 020 $a 9781324005469 035 $a (OCoLC)1120094207 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d TP7 $d OCL $d IUK $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-nc 050 00 $a PS3561.E4228 $b .A6 2020 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Kenan, Randall, $e author. 240 10 $a Short stories. $k Selections 245 10 $a If I had two wings : $b stories / $c Randall Kenan. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b W. W. Norton & Company, $c [2020] 300 $a 211 pages ; $c 22 cm 505 00 $t God's Gonna Trouble the Water; or, Where is Marisol? $t I Thought I Heard the Shuffle of Angels' Feet -- $t The Eternal Glory That Is Ham Hocks -- $t Ain't No Sunshine -- Ezekiel Saw the Wheel -- $t Mamiwata -- $t Resurrection Hardware; or, Lard & Promises -- $t The Acts of Velmajean Swearington Hoyt and the New City of God -- $t Now Why Come That Is? -- $t God's Gonna Trouble the Water; or, Where is Marisol? 520 $a "Ten heavenly stories that chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives. When Randall Kenan's first collection was published, The New York Times called it "nothing short of a wonder-book." With comparable inventiveness but seasoned by maturity and shot through with humor, his second collection, If I Had Two Wings, riffs on the human relationship with the transcendent. Rooted in Kenan's fictional territory of Tims Creek, NC, this book also travels to more "sophisticated" places, as these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives: a retired North Carolinian on a church trip to Manhattan, taking in life with gentle curiosity, who is befriended by Billy Idol in "When We All Get to Heaven"; the woman whose cooking sparked an eternal hunger in Howard Hughes, in "The Eternal Glory that is Ham Hocks"; a gay man returns from a glamorous life in DC to cope with an ornery uncle in a nursing home in "I Thought I Heard the Shuffle of an Angel's Feed"; and in "The Acts of Velmajean Swearington Hoyt and the New City of God," an elderly woman turned miracle worker, through a grace either divine or diabolical. A rich chorus of voices marked by grit, humor, suffering, and joie de vivre, If I Had Two Wings is a fully satisfying provocation and delight"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Angels $v Fiction. 651 0 $a North Carolina $x Social life and customs $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Short stories. 941 $a 9 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117022210.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629014526.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201021909.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20210211012147.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20210130011621.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210105040723.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20201223010145.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200902012409.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200814010025.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=68EA2E8EDDF311EABC11822697128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search