Dave Margoshes's God Telliing a Joke and Other Stories PDF

By Dave Margoshes

ISBN-10: 0889822999

ISBN-13: 9780889822993

God Telling a funny story and different tales is a set of recent tales through the writer of Bix’s Trumpet and different tales, named e-book of the 12 months on the Saskatchewan booklet Awards and a finalist for the ReLit Award in 2007. one of the characters within the collection’s 19 tales are a 99-year-old humorist wearily hard God to bring the punch line; a lightning strike survivor whose good fortune eventually runs out; a Princeton-educated trapper who transforms himself into the King of the Jews; a tender moment global battle veteran not able to speak one other vet out of suicide; a carnival sideshow “geek” with a pitcher jaw; a stroke sufferer who suffers a distinct form of center assault; and a author dubbed through an award jury as “a gourmand of longing.” The tales variety from laugh-out-loud comedy to wry satire to heart-wrenching romance to sober meditations at the nature of attractiveness, fact, existence and dying. The tales express Margoshes, a grasp story-teller, on the most sensible of his game.

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