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Flights of Angels Stories

Flights of Angels Stories

by Ellen Gilchrist

Book Details

Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1998
Language: en
Pages: 327
ISBN: 9780316314862
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1
💥Violence
3
❤️Love & Romance
2
🧠Mental Health
0
🧙Fantasy / Supernatural
2
💬!*$#Language
0
🍷🚬Substance Use
0
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+
1
😨Fear / Horror

Description

The opening story in Flights of Angels sets the theme for this new A Mississippi patriarch lies dying as his large family gathers around him. Once rich and powerful, he is now reduced to dependency on the very sons who ruined his financial empire and on government programs he has always despised. His granddaughter, the story's narrator, her marriage falling apart, starts an affair with the attending black hospice worker, ironically fulfilling the old man's prejudices.

Themes & Topics

FictionShort Stories (single author)

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