Lamb Bright Saviors
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- 12,99 €
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- 12,99 €
Publisher Description
Lamb Bright Saviors begins as an apocalyptically inclined itinerant preacher staggers across the Nebraska prairie. With his young assistant, Mady, in tow hauling a wagon stacked with bibles, it’s not long before the preacher finds he’s come to the final fulfillment of his self-proclaimed life’s work: to die in front of a group of strangers. Odd as his own end-of-days might be, the lives and struggles of the strangers attending this deathbed scene are even odder. As the dying preacher unleashes a barrage of hallucinatory ramblings and rantings in the hope of imparting wisdom, each ragtag member of this unlikely congregation must reckon with his or her own dark past. And, through it all, the irrepressible Mady lends the preacher’s strange performance a surprising and unforgettable dignity and humor.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The Lamb Bright Saviors of Vivian s stark latest (after The Mover of Bones) are four damaged man-boys chosen by a terminally ill itinerant preacher named Mr. Gene to witness his death at the house of a blind woman in a small Nebraska town they ve dubbed Point Blank, because there s nowhere to hide and nothing to protect you. Each recounts his own sordid story as they listen to Mr. Gene s deathbed rant. Oly lives in the dugout of an abandoned baseball field and dreams of a job as a junior high sports coach. Yarborough, an ex-con, gets bloody revenge on a former fellow inmate before forgiving him. Gus covers his body with tattoos, wanting to have the imprint of my rage stamped across my skin. Munoz, back from the war in Iraq, has brought with him the head of a friend killed in combat. Vivian is a latter-day Faulkner set loose with no editorial restraints, so there is no need to suspend your disbelief for this story. You can only go along for the brilliantly written ride, full of sound and fury that signifies little but moves us intensely.
