An edition of Hints of his mortality (1996)

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An edition of Hints of his mortality (1996)

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The award-winning stories in David Borofka's Hints of His Mortality focus on the male of the species, on bewildered, guilt-ridden, hypersensitive characters adrift in a sea of changing roles and expectations. Although they yearn for the ideal - whether physical or spiritual - and for that sense of divine connection suggested by Wordsworth's Intimations of Immortality, they usually end up settling for what seems the next best thing: sex or religion.

The amorous scrimmage between male and female in these taut, intense stories is a contest that leaves no one unmarked. The hapless ministers in Borofka's memorable collection find that their daily grind of professional piety leaves them with more questions than answers. The men and boys in Hints of His Mortality are always aware of their flaws, for Borofka's vital characters have the capacity to register the shadows of their every blemish.

Like Ferguson of the title story, haunted for twenty years by his failures of conscience, each protagonist experiences the inexorable fallibility of his own nature, agonizes over his moral weakness, and longs for escape from this life in which "our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting." Yet each is redeemed by his ongoing struggle for compassion and understanding.

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Language
English
Pages
235

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Hints of his mortality
1996, University of Iowa Press
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Edition Notes

Published in
Iowa City
Series
Iowa short fiction award

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3552.O75443 H56 1996, PS3552.O75443H56

The Physical Object

Pagination
235 p. ;
Number of pages
235

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL987872M
Internet Archive
hintsofhismortal00boro
ISBN 10
0877455570
LCCN
96026017
OCLC/WorldCat
34933789
Library Thing
1850963
Goodreads
2530822

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