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In 2010, Marie Manilla published an outstanding collection of short stories, “Still Life With Plums.” Now she has published an equally outstanding first novel. Judging from its title, a reader picking up a copy of ‘Shrapnel” might think it’s a war novel. It’s not. It offers no heated exchange of gunfire, no battlefield heroics. Instead, Manilla’s novel explores the legacy of war as seen in three generations of men from the Butler family -- Bing Butler, his late son Roger and his grandson Brian. Webster defines shrapnel as “fragments thrown out by an exploding bomb or shell.” In the heat of battle, those flying fragments of hot metal can easily kill or maim. Manill’s unspoken premise in “Shrapnel” is that cruel and thoughtless words and attitudes can wound just as deeply as any bomb or shell. The publisher’s blurb for “Shrapnel” describes it as “at times funny and at other times frightening ��" and frighteningly honest.” And that it is. It’s also more evidence of Manilla’s extraordinary talent as a writer. Apparently the editors at one of the book industry’s best-known publishing houses, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, also recognize that talent. They’ve purchased her next novel, “The Patron Saint of Ugly,” also set in West Virginia, and have scheduled it for a spring 2014 release.
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ISBN:
9781579660840
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08/24/2012
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River City Publishing
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329
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Marie Manilla
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