A primitive heart
Subtitle: stories
By: David Rabe.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "A Primitive Heart is a collection of stories that moves into areas untouched in David Rabe's previous work, cutting to the quick of American manhood and revealing the distance within the most intimate relationships. Whether he is writing about a marriage shadowed by the unacknowledged discord of a risky pregnancy, about a group of men whose attempt to settle an account launches them toward unexpected violence, or about a young journalist who believes he's escaped his Catholic roots, but is forced again to confront them by a priest who once was his mentor as a writer, Rabe's voice tenders an inimitable portrait of America and offers a benediction to her struggling souls."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: A primitive heart; title: Early Madonnna; title: Some loose change; title: Veranda; title: Holy men; title: Leveling out.