Hyssop By Kevin McIlvoy

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Title	:	Hyssop
Author	:	Kevin McIlvoy
Format	:	Paperback
Page	:	192 pages
ISBN	:	0380732718

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Kevin McIlvoy s Hyssop is a remarkable novel filled with kindness, truth, and magic a story that celebrates friendship and love while exploring the complexities of a simple faith that enriches materially impoverished lives It is a gorgeous patchwork of memory lovingly sewn together by Red Greetaltruistic petty thief and guileless grifter who has spent many days of his ei Kevin McIlvoy s Hyssop is a remarkable novel filled with kindness, truth, and magic a story that celebrates friendship and love while exploring the complexities of a simple faith that enriches materially impoverished lives It is a gorgeous patchwork of memory lovingly sewn together by Red Greetaltruistic petty thief and guileless grifter who has spent many days of his eighty seven years behind bars in Las Almas, New Mexico Twice married the second time, while in jail, to his lifelong love Recita Holguin Red has sampled pleasures available only to those capable of embracing life and its temptations without shame or fear But his sins have been as memorable as his adventures transgressions he shares freely with Bishop Francisco Velasco, Red s lifelong best friend and confessor, and his one time rival for the affections of his first wife, Cecilia In telling how he has loved and been loved, in confessing how he has sinned and inspired others to sin, Red Greet seeks hyssop, the substance that might wash his soul clean

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about Author

Kevin McIlvoy teaches in the Department of English at New Mexico State University, and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College Recently, he has taught at the Bread Loaf, RopeWalk, and Arizona State University writers conferences He has been the editor in chief of Puerto del Sol, the NMSU national literary magazine, for twenty three years, and has published his own work in litera Kevin McIlvoy teaches in the Department of English at New Mexico State University, and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College Recently, he has taught at the Bread Loaf, RopeWalk, and Arizona State University writers conferences He has been the editor in chief of Puerto del Sol, the NMSU national literary magazine, for twenty three years, and has published his own work in literary magazines, including TriQuarterly, the Southern Review, River City, Ploughshares, and the Missouri Review The Complete History of New Mexico is his first story collection he has published four novels, A Waltz, The Fifth Station, Little Peg, and Hyssop He and his family live in Las Cruces, New Mexico

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Title: Hyssop
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Published :2016-04-18T00:46+01:00
Kevin McIlvoy s Hyssop is a remarkable novel filled with kindness, truth, and magic a story that celebrates friendship and love while exploring the co

Hyssop

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