Empty Bed Blues: StoriesUniversity of Missouri Press, 1 apr. 2006 - 208 pagini The fifteen stories of George Garrett’s Empty Bed Blues (his eighth book-length collection) are vintage Garrett—no two alike—with each moving, one way and another, in new and daring directions. His stories are deeply concerned with the old verities of love and death and filled with the joys and woes of characters who come to life and command our attention. Diversity is the key word for Garrett’s short fiction. He works in every known form and invents a few himself. In “A Story Goes with It,” Garrett fondly remembers an old friend while retelling a story the man once told him. Most of it is probably not accurate, as Garrett is quick to admit, but the mixture of fact with fiction makes for an entertaining read. His stories turn like the sharp curves of a mountain road, abruptly changing from a fond trip down memory lane to a sleazy reporter’s quest along the backroads for the ultimate crime story in “Pornographers.”He tops off his collection with “A Short History of the Civil War,” a series of poems written by two participants: one a Confederate, the other a Yankee. In the marriage of fact and fiction, of comedy and pathos, and the music of many voices, the stories of Empty Bed Blues reconfirm the judgment of novelist and story writer Richard Bausch, who said in 1998: “There is no writer on the American scene with a more versatile, more eclectic, or more restless talent than George Garrett.” |
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... Dark Novels The Finished Man Which Ones Are the Enemy? Do, Lord, Remember Me Death of the Fox The Succession Poison Pen Entered from the Sun The Old Army Game The King of Babylon Shall Not Come against You Double Vision POETRY The ...
... Dark. For some of the material used in “Ghost Me What's Holy Now,” the author is gratefully indebted to the scholarship and textual acument of F. H. Mares in The Memoirs of Robert Carey (Ox- ford: Clarendon Press, 1972). Empty Bed Blues ...
... dark with our sparklers and Roman candles . Grown - ups , uncles and such , set off rockets over the ocean . A fine time until , all of a sudden , out on the front porch of their cottage the young men appeared , stood in a row , and ...
... dark canopy of shade. Houses with green crisp lawns, dark earth and, here and there, a sprinkler pulsing bright water. Can see the lights of the boy's house being switched on downstairs. Can hear briefly, before his father's voice calls ...
... darkness, trying without success to put on the spare, while George stood by wondering what the trouble could be. Finally he struck a match, and we saw our difficulty: I had been try- ing to put the spare on backwards. Now, as I said ...
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3 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR | 50 |
4 THE MISERY AND THE GLORY OF TEXAS PETE | 57 |
5 TANKS | 61 |
6 EMPTY BED BLUES | 69 |
7 GHOST ME WHAT S HOLY NOW | 83 |
8 Spilling the Beans | 105 |
9 Pornographers | 117 |
10 With My BodyI Thee Worship | 124 |
11 HEROES | 147 |
12 A PERFECT STRANGER | 155 |
13 GATOR BAIT | 164 |
EPILOGUE | 177 |