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The Natural Order of Things

Published
Dec 2012
Main Genre
General Fiction General Fiction
Pages
400

About This Book

From a startling new voice in American fiction comes a dark, powerful novel about a tragic city and its inhabitants over the course of one Halloween weekend.

Set in a decaying Midwestern urban landscape, with its goings-on and entire atmosphere dominated and charged by one Jesuit prep school and its students, parents, faculty, and alumni, THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS is a window into the human condition.

From the opening chapter and its story of the doomed quarterback, Frank McSweeney, aka The Minotaur, for whom prayers prove not enough, to the end, wherein the school's former headmaster is betrayed by his peers in the worst way possible, we see people and their oddness and ambitions laid out bare before us.

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First Edition Dec 2012 Aqueous Books ISBN 0988383713
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Dec 2012 Aqueous Books ISBN B00APO9BIS
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Mar 2015 -- Not Selected ISBN B00VGSEUOC
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Jun 2016 Brilliance Audio ISBN 1522659560
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