Authors: Greg Garrett
Tags: #Christian Fiction, #Christian Family, #Small Towns, #Regret, #Guilt, #High-school, #Basketball, #Coaching
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SHAME
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This story is a work of fiction. All characters and events are the product of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, is coincidental.
LCCN 2009922188
eISBN 978-0-7814-0316-0
© 2009 Greg Garrett
Published in association with the literary agency of Jill Grosjean
The Team: Andrea Christian, Steve Parolini, Amy Kiechlin, Sarah
Schultz Jaci Schneider, Caitlyn York, Karen Athen
Cover Design: DogEared Design, 11 Kirk DouPonce
Cover Photo: iStockphoto and Shutterstock
First Edition 2009
Photo by Chandler Garrett
Greg Garrett
, professor of English at Baylor University, is an award-winning author of both fiction and nonfiction. His critically acclaimed novel
Free Bird
was chosen by
Publishers Weekly
as one of the best first novels of 2002. He resides in Austin, Texas.
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What people are saying about â¦
Shame
“Seven years after his acclaimed novel
Free Bird
, Garrett, a professor of English at Baylor University, returns to fiction with a family love story that starts as slow as the pace in the Oklahoma farming town where it's set. The plot picks up steam when John Tilden unpacks his past in first-person narration. A class reunion and alumni basketball game planned in the small community churn up a midlife crisis for this married man with kids, stirring up his glory days of basketball and girls. The writing is titillating for Christian fiction but believable as the narrator fights the temptation of a former lover and recent divorcé (“The two of us in my truck flashed into my head, and it took a moment of mental wrestling to body slam it to the mat”). The book explores faithfulness in marriage and friendship through rich, believable characters. Punchy dialogue, particularly the funny exchanges between rancher father and newly vegetarian daughter, should bring knowing nods from parents of teens.
Shame
plows deep furrows in the heartâa slam dunk for Garrett.”
Publishers Weekly
Praise for â¦
Greg Garrett
“An astonishingly gifted writer.”
Dennis Covington,
National Book Award Finalist for
Salvation on Sand Mountain
“Greg Garrett is a remarkable novelist who has the courage to explore in classic terms the great theme of the human soul.”
Robert Olen Butler,
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
“Greg Garrett writes with intelligence, with wit, with humor, with obvious affection for his characters, with an eye for the salient detail that brings an economy to the writing that I particularly admire.”
Elinor Lipman,
author of
Then She Found Me
and
My Latest Grievance
Praise for â¦
Free Bird
“A work of wit and arresting grace ⦠a grave and hopeful story about the battle between grief and faith.”
Julia Glass,
winner of the National Book Award for Fiction for
Three Junes
“By turns harrowing and hilarious, poignant and pointed ⦠that most rare of things these days: a book with meaning, and with heart.”
Bret Lott,
author of the Oprah Book Club and
New York Times
best-selling book
Jewel
“Energetic, suspenseful, and moving ⦠a great read with picture perfect dialogue.”
Lee Smith,
winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for
The Last Girls
“A fast-moving, high-octane pilgrimage to redemption,
Free Bird
offers a bumpy but unforgettable flight. You'll be glad you were around for the trip.”
New Orleans Times-Picayune
“Best reason to read: For its cast of downright memorable characters, its fast pace, and its thought-provoking message.”
Rocky Mountain News
“Entertaining. This wide-ranging novel makes for a very enjoyable and occasionally thought-provoking read.”
Publishers Weekly
Praise for â¦
Cycling
“
Cycling
is a belated coming of age novel in the sexy, genteel tradition of Walker Percy and Richard Ford.”
Stewart O'Nan,
author of
Songs for the Missing
and
The Names of the Dead
“Garrett creates characters who are whole and complex.”
Library Journal