The Viewing Room - Stories

In The Viewing Room, two hospital chaplains console the living during the moments when they look upon their beloved dead for one last time in a large urban hospital in Los Angeles. But this room is also a character, linking stories together and bearing witness in chilling testimony of grief and wisdom.

About the author

JACQUELIN GORMAN is the author of The Seeing Glass, a memoir. She grew up in a family of physicians in the shadow of Johns Hopkins Hospital and spent a great deal of time in Maryland's hospitals as a girl. She has practiced as a health-care lawyer in Los Angeles and as a hospital chaplain, and she is currently the program director at the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Her stories have appeared in Slake Magazine, Kenyon Review, ScreamOnline, The Journal, and Reader's Digest.

Summary

Gorman lays bare nine parallel worlds of suffering in stories of unflinching detail that follow two chaplains who work to console survivors of patients in a Los Angeles hospital. This moving and unsettling collection of stories shines a piercing light on the dark corners of our modern world, illuminating necessary truths.

Product details

• Authors: Jacquelin Gorman, Jacqueline Laks Gorman
• Assisted by: Nancy Zafris (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2013
• EAN: 9780820345482
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4548-2
• Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Sh; Flannery O'Connor Award for Sh; Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Fiction - General