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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... don't get there first. No kidding. Meanwhile the Mediterranean is nobody's lake, and the Atlantic seems to belong to the German U-boats. On the eastern front the Germans are in the suburbs of Leningrad and Moscow, and by early December ...
... don't bother to mention it to anyone else at the time or even (especially) later. As for the saboteurs, they now have to wait around for a little while, maybe a week or ten days, while a whole new package of materials is put together by ...
... Don't Like the Weather (1986). One of my favorites is a wonderful book about some early American rascals and scoundrels—Men without Countries: Three Adventurers of the Early Southwest (1969). These three rogues were spies for Thomas ...
... don't know if it's true , but . . . ) that Dobie and Webb had quarreled and that they never went to any place ... don't reckon you're going to make that flight and there won't be another one coming along right away , either . " " How ...
... don't mind my asking , just what the fuck do you think you are doing here ? " " Going to Galveston , officer . ” " No , you ain't , sir . This road is closed to civilian traffic . ” " We're not civilians . We're from the Houston Post ...
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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 |