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 Author Name: Manley, Frank
Title: Within the Ribbons
Book Condition: Good.
ISBN Number: 086547379X / 9780865473799
Seller ID: 0310J949125
Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket 1989 Farrar Straus Giroux. Very clean; no marks; pages bright; binding tight. Apparently 1st edition--no additional printings indicated. Jacket scuffed and scratched but not creased. 223pp. Language: English. 'Manley takes us deep into Flannery O'Connor territory, where the thin but luminous line separating the pain of the ordinary and the grace of divine transcendence waits to be crossed by all of the characters in this wonderfully rich debut collection. The characters in these 9 stories are saved; they walk out of their spiritual prison of memory, confusion and ignorance into those rare moments of emotional epiphany, where a visitation of lucidity and acceptance transforms even the most constricted lives. In this religiously charged atmosphere, ordinary objects become conduits to spiritual transformation: in the title story, a bridal bouquet and a freak accident are the means through which an unmarried middle-aged woman dimly apprehends the power and passion of the marital state. In 58 Babylon Dread Bean, an escalator lifts a newly widowed woman from a lost city into a place of infinite grace. In An Errand of Mercy, a bedridden stroke victim communicates through a Ouija board to a lady from the Baptist church and teaches her the meaning of mercy. What distinguishes Manley, an English professor at Emory University, from others who have mined the neo-Southern gothic vein, is an extraordinarily sensitive ear and a good humored, deep understanding of the people who inhabit his world. From the mouths of these colorful storytellers come the pain and terror, violence and beauty of their lives.'--Puplishers Weekly, 1989.
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