Afterlives of the saints
By: Colin Dickey
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Denver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781609530723
Subjects: Christian saints; Fiction
Description: "Afterlives of the Saints is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borges' "Library of Babel," the history of spontaneous human combustion, the dangers of masturbation, the pleasures of castration, "and so forth" - each essay focusing on the story of a particular (and particularly strange) saint"--