Hints of His Mortality (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
Language: English
Published by University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA, 1996
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Selected by Oscar Hijuelos as the 1996 Iowa Short Fiction Award Winner! Hijuelos has said of it "Tersely written and marked by an exuberant and fluid prose style, both lyric and colloquial, "Hints of Mortality" is a serious-minded, higly refined collection of stories by a writer of splended tallent. A sprawling, gtenerous anthology of stories about modern life, this book has much to admire and much to offer to the discerning lover of good modern literature.".
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- Title
- Hints of His Mortality (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
- Author
- Borofka, David
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0877455570
- ISBN 13
- 9780877455578
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- Seller catalogs
- Iowa Short Fiction Award, Modern First Editions
The amorous scrimmage between male and female in these taut, intense stories is a contest that leaves no one unmarked. The hapless ministers in Borofka's memorable collection find that their daily grind of professional piety leaves them with more questions than answers. The men and boys in Hints of His Mortality are always aware of their flaws, for Borofka's vital characters have the capacity to register the shadows of their every blemish. Like Ferguson of the title story, haunted for twenty years by his failures of conscience, each protagonist experiences the inexorable fallibility of his own nature, agonizes over his moral weakness, and longs for escape from this life in which "our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting." Yet each is redeemed by his ongoing struggle for compassion and understanding.
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