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If I Had Two Wings - Stories

Randall Kenan

Narrator JD Jackson

Publisher: Tantor Audio

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Summary

Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives.In Kenan's fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. A retired plumber travels to Manhattan, where Billy Idol sweeps him into his entourage. An architect who lost his famous lover to AIDS reconnects with a high-school fling. Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans.Shot through with humor and seasoned by inventiveness and maturity, Kenan riffs on appetites of all kinds, on the eerie persistence of history, and on unstoppable lovers and unexpected salvations. If I Had Two Wings is a rich chorus of voices and visions, dreams and prophecies, marked by physicality and spirit. Kenan's prose is nothing short of wondrous.
Duration: about 6 hours (06:18:54)
Publishing date: 2021-02-02; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2021. Copyright Statment: —