
The Gateway
T. M. McNally
T. M. McNally's subject in the seven stories in this, his third story collection, is love, always love. For him, these are religious stories for skeptics who are spiritually inclined. In "Bastogne," a middle-aged son visiting the French countryside where his father was wounded in World War II pursues his father's early ghosts, along with some of his own. In "Given," the father of the lovely Annabella determines to provide a means of escape for his cherished daughter who has made a drastic mistake in her choice of a husband. And in the title story, a man and his wife celebrate their wedding anniversary in Paris where he muses about the bittersweet vagaries of his life and loves and about his wife's younger days in the City of Light.
- Publisher
- Southern Methodist University Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780870745164
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Awards
- PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(2008)
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