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How blasphemy sounds to God : a novel by Fincke, Gary, author is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is How blasphemy sounds to God : a novel about?
Fiction. What saves us? It's a question as old and as urgent as humanity itself. With this remarkable book, award-winning poet, essayist, and short story writer Gary Fincke opens an exciting new chapter of his career. Structured as a novel-in-stories, HOW BLASPHEMY SOUNDS TO GOD explores our capacity for loyalty and love as it delves into the lives of people on the brink of faith. In prose so pitch-perfect you'll forget you're reading, Fincke lays open the hearts and souls of mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, daughters and sons each in their own way struggling to protect themselves from the chaos of life, reaching for things they only barely know exist... or fleeing those they can't quite see. Set in the tumult of the nineteen sixties, HOW BLASPHEMY SOUNDS TO GOD explores the lives of average people rocked by the seismic shifts around them: the specter of Communism, the war in Vietnam, the space race, the Kennedys and Camelot, and the many shifting social mores that spark and flash and too often catch fire. Whether it's a young mother facing her mortality or a wife flaunting her sexual freedom in front of her husband or a father trying to prepare his child for the dangers of
Who reads How blasphemy sounds to God : a novel?
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Fincke, Gary, author
- Publisher
- [Braddock, PA]: Braddock Avenue Books
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780615940410
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (10 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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