Brightest Place in the World - A Novel

Based on a true event, The Brightest Place in the World traces the lives and interactions of six Las Vegans in the wake of an industrial disaster. Grief and regret, disloyalty and atonement, infatuation and love--all are on display as the characters struggle to recover and adjust when their lives are forever changed.

About the author

David Philip Mullins is the author of Greetings from Below and associate professor of English at Creighton University. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his fiction has appeared in many publications, including in The Yale Review, Ecotone, Cimarron Review, Fiction, and Folio.

Summary

Inspired by true events, The Brightest Place in the World traces the lives of four characters haunted by an industrial disaster. Against the sordid backdrop of Las Vegas - and inspired by the PEPCON disaster of May 4th, 1988 - this engaging novel is a story of grief and regret, disloyalty and atonement, infatuation and love.

Product details

• Authors: David Philip Mullins, David Phillip Mullins
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781948908412
• ISBN: 978-1-948908-41-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 225 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Western Literature and Fiction
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature