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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Stories George Garrett. 66 " ... The world began without us . It can live on any grief . ” -Louis Coxe , " Revival " PROLOGUE INDEPENDENCE DAY Time : Early in the days of.
Stories George Garrett. PROLOGUE INDEPENDENCE DAY Time : Early in the days of the Great Depression . Place : Florida East Coast , just south of the still - undeveloped , still - unspoiled Daytona Beach ; a cottage in the dunes facing the ...
... early supper. “Come on,” the man shouts. “Knock it to me!” The boy, all concentration, tosses the ball up and then swings the bat to loft it high above the man. Who, skinny and raggedy as a scarecrow, moves back and away and underneath ...
... early 1942, say a month or so after the earlier one. We know that Hitler was in Berlin during most of January of '42. He probably met again with Admiral Canaris before the thir- tieth, because on that day we knew for sure that Hitler ...
... early 1942. Out in the Pacific, our huge fleet (all but the aircraft carriers, thank God) was mostly resting at the bottom of the sea. Everywhere—Malaya, the Philippines, Indo-China, the East Indies, the South Pacific, the Japs were ...
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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 |