Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Kneeling Bus

The Kneeling Bus

Coyle, Beverly

Paperback

General Fiction

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 0140148981
ISBN13: 9780140148985
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: Feb 1 1992
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.04 Depth: 7.75
Language: English
Perfect, dazzling stories that show you the world in a way you've never ever seen before. -Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times

These eight connected stories depict Carrie Willis's coming-of-age as the daughter of a liberal minister in the Florida of the 1950s. Beverly Coyle's tropical landscape is quietly rural, relentlessly Methodist -lovely, lovely, and self-doubting. Her writing is as intimate as a memoir, and her stories take odd, voyeuristic turns: we meet Carrie's grandmother, a Seventh-day Adventist convert, much to the consternation of her family; a boy who feeds his pet leeches from blood-filled rubber gloves; the daughter of wealthy orchid growers who is killed by a truck on a rainy highway; and Carrie's great-aunt Dove, who falls for a con man who preaches the miracle of Direct Dialing. Actually arranging a promised call to Dr. Norman Vincent Peale may be the one honest thing he does.

By turns hilarious, poignant, and heart-wrenching, The Kneeling Bus chronicles the small shames and deep mortifications of a narrator who once dreamed herself into a mission field of the Congo--before she lost her nerve.

Beverly Coyle employs so light a touch in this warm and wise novel that it completely charms us long before we feel how much it has taught us.--St. Petersburg Times

Also in

General Fiction

View All