The world's smallest Bible
Subtitle: a novel
By: Dennis Must ; illustrations Russ Spitkovsky
Contributors: Spitkovsky, Russ, illustrator
Edition: First Edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781597099721
Subjects: Grief; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; Battle casualties; World War, 1939-1945; Young men; Casualties; Fiction
Description: The World's Smallest Bible chronicles the seriocomic boyhood of Ethan and Jeremiah Mueller in mill town Pennsylvania during the height of World War II. As they lose friends and neighbors to the front lines, the boys try to make sense of the mounting darkness with their imaginations#151;except in their world, no one ever dies. In a private, laconic language, they invent stories that mirror the irrational world around them: a chaplain with bad news becomes the Angel of Death, skeletal Nazis lurk around the corner, and the ghost of a dead playmate taps at their bedroom window in the night. With startling lyricism and narrative grace, Dennis Must has fashioned an indelible vision of the Mueller boys? blighted youth.