Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast

John L'Heureux spent his long, prolific career exploring questions of morality and faith in stories that entertain, surprise, and sometimes disturb; and The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast compiles the enduring stories of a distinctive American writer.A sweeping posthumous collection wrestles with faith, irony, and the redemptive nature of love. KirkusA nun crashes her car; an unborn child sings to its mother; a troubled priest is in the market for a London apartment. In The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast, John L Heureux explores head-on life s biggest questions, and the moments of joy, doubt, transcendence that alter the course of life. Compiled as he neared the end of his life, and conceived as the legacy of a life s work, The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast brims with elegance, humor, and compassion, welcoming both the ordinary and the rapturous. L Heureux is a writer of astonishing vision a master of storytelling and the sentence.