Boy Almighty
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Boy Almighty

An Autobiographical Novel

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Boy Almighty

An Autobiographical Novel

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Frederick Manfred was the author of Lord Grizzly, finalist for the National Book Award, as well as twenty-six other novels and short story collections, many of which explore nuanced struggles with death and other life challenges which demand toughness and resilience. Although a work of fiction, Boy Almighty conveys Manfred's dramatic personal story of contracting tuberculosis as a young man and being cared for at a convalescent home at the Glen Lake Sanatorium in Minnesota. A remarkable blend of stream-of-consciousness and objective reporting, Boy Almighty is the story of a man in the throes of dissolution and disintegration from tuberculosis and of his recovery, reintegration, and rebirth. Eric Frey, sensitive, aware, in love with life, yet beset with frustration and failure, is at first too ill to be placed in a tubercular ward, where his almost certain death would be upsetting to the other patients. Running concurrently with the inner story of Frey's mind is the story of his body's struggle to survive. Boy Almighty is a profound and compelling study of a man who desperately wants to live and of his relationships with doctors, nurses, roommates, and a fellow patient who teaches him the meaning of love.

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Publisher
Bison Books
Year
2021
ISBN
9781496228949
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. FRONT COVER
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. DEDICATION PAGE
  5. CONTENTS
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. I. RETURN TO THE MATRIX
  8. II. THE SONG UNSUNG
  9. III. FLICKERINGS
  10. IV. OLD VOICES AWAKEN
  11. V. THE FOETUS PLAYS
  12. VI. BRIEFED FOR BATTLE
  13. VII. THE WHIPPER RECOGNIZED
  14. VIII. FOOLISHNESS
  15. IX. THE WHIPPER SEEN AGAIN
  16. X. ENTER SATAN DEEBLE
  17. XI. RELAPSE
  18. XII. THE FLAME CLEARS
  19. XIII. THE FLAME QUICKENS
  20. XIV. THE WHIPPER: ANOTHER VIEW
  21. XV. HUNGER FOR THE RED BONE
  22. XVI. WHITTLINGS
  23. XVII. GREENS, REDS, BLOODY REDS
  24. XVIII. LAMPS IN THE NIGHT
  25. XIX. FANTASY IN THE STORM
  26. XX. A DOOR OPENS
  27. XXI. THE FLAME IS DAMPERED
  28. XXII. THE NEW WOMAN
  29. XXIII. DRIFTING
  30. XXIV. THE DOOR OPENS AGAIN
  31. XXV. THE FOETUS STIRS
  32. XXVI. ADVENTURE
  33. XXVII. A LANE AND A PASTURE
  34. XXVIII. THE WHIPPER STRIKES
  35. XXIX. ALARM IN THE NIGHT
  36. XXX. A SONG IS SUNG
  37. XXXI. THE WHIPPER DESCRIBED
  38. XXXII. THE WHIPPER STRIKES AGAIN
  39. XXXIII. LAMENT
  40. XXXIV. LONELINESS
  41. XXXV. REBUFF
  42. XXXVI. RE-ENTER SATAN
  43. XXXVII. SATAN TEMPTS ERIC
  44. XXXVIII. THE WAY WIDENS
  45. XXXIX. DESCENT INTO HELL
  46. XL. THE WHIPPER AS A WOMAN
  47. XLI. SPARKS
  48. XLII. ACTIVITY
  49. XLIII. LABOR PAINS
  50. XLIV. CAST FROM THE MATRIX AGAIN
  51. XLV. BRIEF VICTORY