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01/29/2012 4:00 pm
Recipient of the O. Henry and Pushcart prizes for his short stories, Bradford Morrow gathers here for the first time a collection of his most gothic, darkly comic tales, The Uninnocent.
A young man whose childhood hobby of collecting sea shells and
birds' nests takes a sinister turn when he becomes obsessed with his
brother's girlfriend, in "The Hoarder" (selected as one of the Best American Noir Stories of the Century).
An archeologist summoned to attend his beloved sister's funeral is
astonished to discover it is not she who has died, but someone much
closer to him, in "Gardener of Heart." A blind motivational speaker has
a crisis of faith when he suddenly regains his sight, only to discover
life was better lived in the dark, in "Amazing Grace."
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