The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast: New and Selected Stories

By John L'Heureux

Book Overview

John L'Heureux spent his long, prolific career exploring questions of morality and faith in stories that entertain, surprise, and sometimes disturb; and The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast compiles the enduring stories of a distinctive American writer.

A sweeping posthumous collection wrestles with faith, irony, and the redemptive nature of love.
--Kirkus

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0998267570
• ISBN13: 9780998267579
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Public Space Books
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 20 years and up