The natural order of things
Subtitle: a novel
By: Kevin P. Keating
Edition: First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries, a division of Random House LLC
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780804169271
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Preparatory schools; Fiction; High school students; Teachers; Priests
Description: "The Natural Order of Things , comprised of 15 interconnected stories, is properly thought of as a novel in the tradition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio or John Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven--but with a gothic sensibility. The novel concerns the adventures and exploits of a small group of students, teachers, employees, and priests at a Jesuit prep school in a dying industrial city. Its stories harbor star quarterbacks who sabotage important games, the head coach with a gambling addiction wagering on his own team, an elderly priest suffering from acute memory loss who dabbles in heretical beliefs, and others who swim against the tides of society's proscribed roles."--Publisher's webstie.
Notes: "Originally published in the United States by Aqueous Books, New Orleans, in 2012."--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Virgil; title: Box; title: No deposit love; title: The deer park; title: In the secret parts of fortune; title: Zanzibar; title: Hack; title: Ghost dance; title: The distinguished precipice; title: The spy; title: Uncreated creatures; title: Antiquing; title: Merde at the Rue de la Contrescarpe; title: The black death of Gentile de Foligno; title: Gehenna.