Robert Hellenga
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the morning of her release from prison, Sunny, who grew up in a snakehandling church in the Little Egypt region of Southern Illinois, rents a garage apartment from Jackson. She's been serving a five-year sentence for shooting, but not killing, her husband, the pastor of the Church of the Burning Bush with Signs Following, after he forced her at gunpoint to put her arm in a box of rattlesnakes. Sunny and Jackson become lovers, but they're pulled...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
460 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
American classics professor Alan Woodhull, numb since his beloved daughter was killed in a terrorist bombing seven years earlier, begins the process of reawakening to life and love when he decides to travel to Italy to attend the trial of the people responsible for Cookie's death.