MiracleMiracle
a Novel
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Book, 2005
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Current format, Book, 2005, , Available . Offered in 0 more formats"Leo Dubray's Miracle offers an unvarnished account of the day and night life of a beat cop, but Miracle is much more than a cop story. It is a vision of the other America - a devastated suburban landscape of decayed shopping malls and boarded-up schools. It is a world of people, both cops and civilians, who destroy the urban world and the lives around them, but who are sometimes astonishing in their redemption. The troubling landscape of Miracle is dark yet intensely lyrical, beautiful even in its darkness." "It is this darkness that Matthew, an American Indian mixed-blood police officer, knows intimately. Through his years on the force, he has developed steely nerves and shrewd negotiation skills. Every day he encounters moral and cultural decay. He responds by striving to protect those he believes are, or should be, innocent. Even so, he is time and again slammed with the helplessness of arriving seconds too late." "To face such daily horrors Matthew had developed a protective veneer of detachment, but it has bled into his personal life. Now he must deal with visits from his ex-wife, with whom he shares no affection, and negotiate a relationship with the daughter who is growing to hate him." "It is only the little miracles of survival in any given day that keep the cycle going - those bittersweet miracles that stand the world on its head by proving that faith in the unbelievable is the essence of life."--BOOK JACKET.
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