A Better Angel
  • Published:
    Aug-2008 (Hardcover)
    Jul-2009 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    240
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The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering--illness, regret, mourning, sympathy--in the most unusual of ways. In "Stab," a bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lead him back to his dead brother. In "Why Antichrist?" a boy tries to contact the spirit of his dead father and finds himself talking to the Devil instead. In the remarkable title story, a ne'er do well pediatrician returns home to take care of his dying father, all the while under the scrutiny of an easily-disappointed heavenly agent.

With Gob's Grief and The Children's Hospital, Chris Adrian announced himself as a writer of rare talent and originality. The stories in A Better Angel, some of which have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, and McSweeney's, demonstrate more of his endless inventiveness and wit, and they confirm his growing reputation as a most exciting and unusual literary voice--of heartbreaking, magical, and darkly comic tales.
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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Jul-2009
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0312428537
    • ISBN13: 9780312428532
    • First Edition
    • Aug-2008
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0374289905
    • ISBN13: 9780374289904
    •  
    • Aug-2008
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1429942312
    • ISBN13: 9781429942317
    •  
    • Aug-2008
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Apr-2010
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Jun-2011
    • Granta Books (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1847083633
    • ISBN13: 9781847083630



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