Abbott Awaits

by Chris Bachelder

Book Overview

A quiet tour de force, Chris Bachelder's Abbott Awaits transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, startlingly depicting the intense and poignant challenges of a vulnerable, imaginative father as he lives his everyday American existence. In Abbott we see a modern-day Sisyphus: he is the exhausted father of a lively two-year old, the ruminative husband of a pregnant insomniac, and the confused owner of a terrified dog. Confronted by a flooded basement,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807137227
• ISBN13: 9780807137222
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"