The Law of Miracles

by Smith, Gregory Blake

• ISBN13: 9781558499003
• ISBN10: 1558499008
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-30
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Summary

Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction

Author Biography

Gregory Blake Smith is the Lloyd P. Johnson-Norwest Professor of English and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is the author of three novels: The Madonna of Las Vegas, The Devil in the Dooryard, and The Divine Comedy of John Venner, which was selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review.

Table of Contents

The Librarian in the Mud	p. 1
Presently In Ruins	p. 4
The Ballad of Little Homo	p. 24
Being and Nothingness (Not A Real Title)	p. 28
At the Schiller-Oberschule	p. 44
The Madonna of the Relics	p. 45
Hannan of the Suqal-Barra	p. 62
Hands	p. 64
Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense	p. 74
Missing, Believed Wiped	p. 78
Paraconsistent Logic	p. 98
Punishment	p. 100
The Pigeons at Kazan Cathedral	p. 119
Destroying Herman Yoder	p. 122
The Island of the Fifth Wheels	p. 148
The Law of Miracles	p. 151
A Cosmic Divertissement	p. 163
Acknowledgments	p. 165
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