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First Make Mad
First Make Mad is a day's journey into the soul of Roman Moran. A father and a fisherman, a writer and a grocery store clerk, a sinner and a mystic, Roman makes his way through a single Ash Wednesday in the curious town of Hot Springs, Arkansas. There the ghosts of gangsters and Native Americans whisper on the mist-wreathed mountainsides, and the dead of Roman's own family form a chorus such as Odysseus might have heard as he coursed over the Mediterranean Sea. The odyssey of the Moran family, though here told only in brief, is replete with its own cast of monsters and maidens, prophecies and visions, and descents into the realm of the dead. In the end, it confronts the mystery of the ways of men and women, of the return home and the renewed ascent of the marriage bed in the face of a world shot through with grace but subject still to the power of death.
Book Details
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Publish Date: Nov 15th, 2024
- Pages: 132
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.31in - 0.39lb
- EAN: 9798385206919
About the Author
Fitzpatrick, Daniel: - Daniel Fitzpatrick is the editor of Joie de Vivre and a teacher at Jesuit high school in New Orleans. He is the author of the novel Only the Lover Sings, a verse translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, and Restoring the Lord's Day.
Praise for this book
"Danny Fitzpatrick has accomplished something only great authors can achieve with such
seeming ease--he has written a story that confines itself to a single day and yet, in its subtle
movements and plunging themes, feels epic in its reach. At times, his prose recalls Joyce in its
lyricism and fluidity; other times, I was reminded of McCarthy's deft handling of the real and the mundane. Ultimately, Fitzpatrick's style is all his own, with descriptions both incisive and
tender, with moments so intimate they ricochet into the universal. First Make Mad is a novella
that reaches from heaven down to hell while remaining ever tethered to our corporal reality as it explores grief and love, fatherhood and faith, and the ways we navigate the fathomless
complexities of human relationships."
--Alexa T. Dodd, writer and editor
seeming ease--he has written a story that confines itself to a single day and yet, in its subtle
movements and plunging themes, feels epic in its reach. At times, his prose recalls Joyce in its
lyricism and fluidity; other times, I was reminded of McCarthy's deft handling of the real and the mundane. Ultimately, Fitzpatrick's style is all his own, with descriptions both incisive and
tender, with moments so intimate they ricochet into the universal. First Make Mad is a novella
that reaches from heaven down to hell while remaining ever tethered to our corporal reality as it explores grief and love, fatherhood and faith, and the ways we navigate the fathomless
complexities of human relationships."
--Alexa T. Dodd, writer and editor