Angels Prostate Fall - Hardcover

Terry, Marshall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870744631 ISBN 13: 9780870744631

Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press,U.S., 2001

Synopsis

Stanley Morris, a winsome, aging professor of writing and literature, secure in his context as a loyalist in his university, discovers he has cancer of the prostate. This strikes him as absurd, not to mention unbelievable. He immediately decides to have it removed, and goes through the preliminary tests and giving of blood, which sequence becomes a theater of the absurd. As he is coming back into consciousness after the operation, his mind and imagination are filled with images and memories of these who have died before him - his half-brother, his mother. Back at home, with his wife's support, he tries to recover his old "self," his identity as a person and a teacher. When he goes back to the campus, he slowly becomes engaged again in the life of his university and accepts a new challenge from the incoming woman dean.

About this title

About the Author

MARSHALL TERRY, a former department chair and associate provost at Southern Methodist University where he has taught for five decades, is the author of seven works of fiction, as well as numerous essays and reviews. He thinks of Stanley Morris as a distillation, like fine aged Scotch, of his own physical and professional experiences. Former president of the Texas Institute of Letters, Terry was honored by that organization in 1991 with the Lon Tinkle Award for "a career of excellence in letters."

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0870744631
• ISBN 13: 9780870744631
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160