A. G. Mojtabai, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0-385-26416-7
In the ordinary time of her title--in those parts of the liturgical year between the holy seasons--Mojtabai ( Blessed Assurance ) explores the ways faith is tried and practiced by residents of the Texas town of Durance, where a drifter named Val,...
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A. G. Mojtabai, Author Nan A. Talese $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-47430-6
The sixth novel by Mojtabai (after Ordinary Time and the award-winning Blessed Assurance , a nonfiction work about the South) offers a curious admixture of sociology and metaphysics. The story, narrated by a variety of witnesses, records the...
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A.G. Mojtabai. Triquarterly, $19.95 ISBN 978-0-8101-3417-1
Mojtabai’s (All That Road Going) episodic novella takes place in a small West Texas town at a car dealership sponsoring a giveaway for a new pickup truck. Any contestant who breaks physical contact with the vehicle is disqualified, and the last...
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A. G. Mojtabai, Author, Mojtabai, Author Zoland Books $22 (190p) ISBN 978-0-944072-91-2
Set in a Texan hospice, award-winning novelist Mojtabai's (Called Out) collection of 17 interlocking short stories explores the ways in which patients--the cruelly young, the frail and weary, the angry, the believers, the rationalists, the people...
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