The Natural Order of Things
Paperback
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN10: 0804169276
ISBN13: 9780804169271
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Apr 8 2014
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780804169271
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Apr 8 2014
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
From a startling new voice in American fiction comes a dark, powerful novel about a tragic city and its inhabitants over the course of one Halloween weekend. Set in a decaying Midwestern urban landscape, with its goings-on and entire atmosphere dominated and charged by one Jesuit prep school and its students, parents, faculty, and alumni, THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS is a window into the human condition. From the opening chapter and its story of the doomed quarterback, Frank McSweeney, aka The Minotaur, for whom prayers prove not enough, to the end, wherein the school's former headmaster is betrayed by his peers in the worst way possible, we see people and their oddness and ambitions laid out bare before us.
Also in
Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
$38.00
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
From $17.99
John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (Loa #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick
Updike, John
Hardcover
$42.75
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback
From $9.99
