Strange Mercies

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book Strange Mercies by Pete Duval, Massachusetts Review, Inc.
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Author: Pete Duval ISBN: 9781943902040
Publisher: Massachusetts Review, Inc. Publication: May 30, 2016
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Pete Duval
ISBN: 9781943902040
Publisher: Massachusetts Review, Inc.
Publication: May 30, 2016
Imprint:
Language: English

Meet Mayhew, protagonist of Pete Duval's "Strange Mercies." Once upon a time in a faraway, Spanish-speaking land, Mayhew has a job to do: document via videotape a young woman whose Christ-like wounds bleed on cue and without scientific explanation, whose street-preacher performances might be exposed as trickery or recorded as real, a mystery we can't explain away, "Strange Mercies" evokes a world of staggering heat and blinding midday light, a world of stray dogs and curlews, "their song beautiful beyond description." From this world something miraculous is made: a modern parable that feels channeled from the ghosts of Fyodor Dostoevsky and John of Patmos.

Praise for Pete Duval
"Duval is an inventive stylist." — Publishers Weekly
"A fresh voice and approach..." — Booklist, ALA
"Intriguing . . . Duval is the master of convincing details." — Boston Globe

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Meet Mayhew, protagonist of Pete Duval's "Strange Mercies." Once upon a time in a faraway, Spanish-speaking land, Mayhew has a job to do: document via videotape a young woman whose Christ-like wounds bleed on cue and without scientific explanation, whose street-preacher performances might be exposed as trickery or recorded as real, a mystery we can't explain away, "Strange Mercies" evokes a world of staggering heat and blinding midday light, a world of stray dogs and curlews, "their song beautiful beyond description." From this world something miraculous is made: a modern parable that feels channeled from the ghosts of Fyodor Dostoevsky and John of Patmos.

Praise for Pete Duval
"Duval is an inventive stylist." — Publishers Weekly
"A fresh voice and approach..." — Booklist, ALA
"Intriguing . . . Duval is the master of convincing details." — Boston Globe

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