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1) Gospel hour
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Donnie Huff nearly drowns in an accident at work as a logger but revives when thumped by an angry co-worker. His pious mother-in-law sees his miraculous recovery--and possible view of the Other Side--as an opportunity to enter him on the revival circuit. Donnie goes along with her, despite the disbelieving resentment of his wife Marie. Told heavily in vernacular, Donnie's story (he "who through sheer happenstance alone had soared off beyond the ether...
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Beginning with his stunning first novel, A Short History of a Small Place, and in all the books that have followed, T. R. Pearson has created an ever-enlarging fictional realm where laugh-out-loud humor is interwoven with some of mankind's darkest impulses. The result is that seamless tapestry found in all true literature, the human comedy. With his unmistakable colloquial idiom, his hilariously eccentric characters, and the enduring resonance of...