The Natural Order of Things
Kevin P. Keating
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
3.50
· 2 ratings · 306 pages · Published: 30 Nov 2012
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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- southern gothic 3
- dark 3
- spooky 2
- coming of age 2
- funny 2
- literary fiction 2
- satire 1
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