num_pages: 304
description: David Rabe, the Tony award-winning playwright of Hurlyburly and In the Boom Boom Room , brings his intense vision to the world of fiction, with a short story collection of astonishing range and versatility. Whether he is writing about a marriage shadowed by the unacknowledged discord of a risky pregnancy, a group of men whose attempt to settle an account launches them toward unexpected violence, or a young journalist who believes he’s escaped his Catholic roots only to be forced again to confront them by a priest who once mentored his writing, Rabe’s strong, true voice tenders an inimitable portrait of America and offers benediction to her lost souls. A Primitive Heart confirms the mastery of a writer and establishes David Rabe as an exciting voice in fiction.
language: English
title: A Primitive Heart: Stories
titlecomplete: A Primitive Heart: Stories
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Grove Press