Joseph Bathanti’s THE ACT OF CONTRITION & OTHER STORIES, a series of linked stories and one novella, continues the adventures of Fritz Sweeney and his outrageously memorable parents, Travis and Rita, that began in Bathanti’s earlier award-winning volume of stories, THE HIGH HEART. Spanning the mid-fifties to the mid-seventies, in an Italian American working class neighborhood in Pittsburgh, THE ACT OF CONTRITION celebrates and complicates the operatic glories and tragedies of an offbeat family that, fashioned from the vault of explosive family secrets, is snared in its own incendiary mythology. These fourteen unforgettable stories – a m駘ange of incantatory magical realism and clear-eyed documentary precision (in the vein of Raymond Carver) – are narrated by Fritz in a prophetic voice that issues at once from the very aggregate of steel town Pittsburgh and his deep yearning to escape it.
Author: Joseph Bathanti
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Eastover Press LLC
Published: 07/25/2023
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9781958094273
Language: English
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