"Marshall Terry has captured wonderfully the sweetness and 
frustration of the island world of contemporary academia. 
And along the way he's thrown in for good measure universal 
truths about love and friendship and partnership and fear 
and courage and duty."--Rick Bass


"Tender, ironic, decent and sly, Angels Prostate Fall is 
Marsh Terry at his best-spinning a story about the fear of 
sexual failure and the specter of mortality that manages to 
be at the same time both mordantly funny and wondrously 
hopeful."--Shelby Hearon


Professor Stanley Morris's orderly world of teaching, 
scholarship, and committee meetings is shaken when he gets 
the surprise so many men of his age dread - a diagnosis of 
prostate cancer. In his struggle to keep his sense of humor, 
his identity, and his dignity, Stanley emerges as a sort of 
Everyman as he stoically makes his way through his physical 
and spiritual ordeal. Stanley's spirit, his loyalty to his 
wife and family and students and to his place in his 
university community are at the heart of this small gem of 
an impressionistic novel.


"Marsh Terry's new novel is very funny and very grim, like 
one of those grinny candy skulls the Mexican kids get on El 
Dia de los Muertos, macabre black humor. The whole has a nice 
tight cycle of being in the world and plummeting out of it and 
then working a way back into it."--C. W. Smith


"The element of Angels Prostate Fall that gilds every scene 
is its bittersweet humor. Even as Stanley experiences physical 
discomfort, deals with the loss of loved ones, and faces his 
own mortality, he retains his self-deprecating sense of humor. 
He acknowledges to himself his fear of death, of the unknown, 
but he is so open to the possibilities of life that he is 
incapable of becoming maudlin. This is a highly readable book, 
comic and sad by turns, quietly yet deeply moving by its 
conclusion."--Allen Wier


Randy Moore's reading of a portion of this novel is available 
on the Texas Bound III audiocassette.


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MARSHALL TERRY, a former department chair and associate 
provost at Southern Methodist University where he has taught 
for five decades, is the author of seven works of fiction, as 
well as numerous essays and reviews. He thinks of Stanley 
Morris as a distillation, like fine aged Scotch, of his own 
physical and professional experiences. Former president of the 
Texas Institute of Letters, Terry was honored by that 
organization in 1991 with the Lon Tinkle Award for "a career 
of excellence in letters."