· The Heaven of Animals by David James Poissant. Reviewed By Kim Winternheimer. April 8th, David James Poissant’s debut collection of short stories, The Heaven of Animals, is a grim, rough, occasionally brutal examination of family and love. Unlikeable characters demand attention and hold it wildly from page to page, bringing unexpected beauty to a world that is often www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins. · That appears to have been the challenge David James Poissant assigned to himself. His story collection, THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS, confronts many of life’s difficulties, the inevitable as well as the self-inflicted, and the result is, for the most part, an assured debut. Many of the pieces are set in the American South, specifically Florida, Georgia and Kentucky, and in Arizona. · The Heaven of Animals. by. David James Poissant (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 1, ratings · reviews. In each of the stories in this remarkable debut, award-winning writer David James Poissant explores the tenuous bonds of family—fathers and sons, husbands and wives—as they are tested by the sometimes brutal power of love/5.
Most of the stories in David James Poissant's debut collection are set in the American South, and all are melancholy tales of domestic discord and loss. A cook at a diner pitches his gay teenage son through a window. A couple's baby dies from SIDS. A wife is killed in a car accident. A teenager loses a limb. This is grim subject matter, but Poissant's work is distinguished by his. In each of the stories in this remarkable collection, David James Poissant delivers a moving portrayal of a relationship in turmoil. His strikingly true-to-life characters have reached a precipice, chased there by troubles of their own making. Some stand frightened, some ready to fight. The Heaven of Animals. "The Heaven of Animals is an extraordinary debut from Florida author David James Poissant - a Venn diagram of the miraculous and the absurd. Like Flannery O'Connor, Poissant's stories are marked by violence, humor, and grace; like Saunders, Poissant can spoon-bend reality; like Carver and Diaz, he writes scenes soaked in kerosene and seconds.
DAVID JAMES POISSANT is the author of the story collection The Heaven of Animals, in print in five languages, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a Florida Book Award, longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His stories and essays have appeared in The American Scholar, The Atlantic Monthly, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, One Story, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and in numerous anthologies including New Stories. David James Poissant is the author of The Heaven of Animals ( avg rating, ratings, reviews, published ), Lake Life ( avg rating, That appears to have been the challenge David James Poissant assigned to himself. His story collection, THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS, confronts many of life’s difficulties, the inevitable as well as the self-inflicted, and the result is, for the most part, an assured debut. Many of the pieces are set in the American South, specifically Florida, Georgia and Kentucky, and in Arizona.
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