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| Genre/Form: | Detective and mystery stories Mystery fiction Fiction |
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| Material Type: | Fiction, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Robert Vivian |
| ISBN: | 080324679X 9780803246799 |
| OCLC Number: | 62766056 |
| Description: | 159 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Series Title: | Tall grass trilogy; Flyover fiction. |
| Responsibility: | Robert Vivian. |
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"this tale is disturbing, horrifying and beautiful all at once" Kirkus Reviews "Beautifully, muscularly written.--poet Jane Hirshfield, author of Given Sugar, Given Salt and After "Robert Vivians prose is lyrical and harrowing--harrowing in the Biblical sense. It is as if the killing fields were being irrigated with light. The Mover of Bones is disturbing, a chorus of the damned, but the music can be strangely sweet.--Sven Birkerts, author of An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on 20th Century Literature Jesse Breedlove, an alcoholic janitor, digs up the bones of a murdered girl buried in a church basement. He wraps them up and takes them on the road from Omaha to Las Vegas, occasionally showing them to some poor loser or hard-luck case he meets along the way. Each of these people has a mystical, life-changing experience upon seeing the bones, some more bizarre than others. The bones sometimes sing; at other times, the murdered girl herself appears, glowing and radiant as if from heaven. Each chapter tells the story from a different person's perspective. Vivian (English & creative writing, Alma Coll., MI; Cold Snap as Yearning) writes in a poetic, almost hallucinatory style. He clearly seeks to give consolation or redemption to those who have lost loved ones to a similarly appalling tragedy. Whether readers will find solace in this strange and disturbing book is hard to say. Suggested for academic libraries and larger collections. [This is the first installment of a planned trilogy.-Ed.]- Leslie Patterson, Brown Univ. Lib., Providence Read more...
