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      Broken Thing

      by Marlin Barton
      Published
      Jun 2003
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      258
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      Author Dabney Stuart best summarizes this debut novel ''as relentless as Euripides, or Faulkner, whose 'As I Lay Dying' is its formal model. Its central preoccupation is the sins (or in more secular terms, 'behavior patterns') of fathers and mothers passing into the lives of their offspring. It also reminds us how many people, living and dead, ghost our daily experience, complication and enriching our choices. Barton includes the dimension of mercy, too---the mutual forgiveness of failures by family members who, finally, find ways to realize they can't live without each other. An impressive, uncompromising book.''

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      Jun 2003 Frederic C. Beil Publisher ISBN13 9781929490202 ISBN10 1929490208
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