Doug Worgul
Autore di Thin Blue Smoke
Opere di Doug Worgul
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1953-09-13
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Lansing, Michigan, USA
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 61
- Popolarità
- #274,234
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 11
All the main characters are broken people. Laverne and his wife Angela lost a son, their son's friend A.B. had a mother who drank, gambled and prostituted herself. The reverend Furgeson Glenn is a semi-famous Episcopal priest whose life is marked by alcoholism (another whiskey priest, Graham Greene anyone?). One of the patrons at the restaurant is a developer who 's family
Smoke pervades the novel. This is a barbecue, after all and Laverne is a purist when it comes to the tradition. However this is not the only smoke. The title of this novel comes from two occasions in the book where 'the thin blue smoke' of incense is wafts up from a censer. The first is at a funeral. The second is in the epilogue at a baptism. Christian spirituality shoots through Worgul's prose as his characters struggle with life, offer no easy answers but learn to cling in faith to God and one another.
This book is full of the stories of these people, spanning decades. When you first pick up the book, these tales feel a little more disconnected though the descriptions of Laverne's restaurant are compelling. As you keep reading, you are drawn into the community which inhabits 17th and Walnut in downtown Kansas.… (altro)