[Signals]
Year:
2017
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday
Year of publication:
2017
Pages:
384
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
Sexual content:
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Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
Of the twenty-one stories that make up the book, nine had been published in the two previous volumes of short stories (The Same Place, the Same Things and Everything That Matters), which include twelve unpublished ones.
Gautreaux has his own world, mainly set in Louisiana, with middle-class characters facing their problems, joys, uncertainties, sometimes in dramatic situations, other times more comedic, but always with a background of kindness, hope, and even redemption.
The first story, Idols, is a tribute to Flannery O'Connor. His interest in machines of all kinds could not be missing.
Author: Luis Ramoneda, Spain
Update on: Aug 2025