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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... exactly how to answer that question when it refers to a project that has originated with the Führer, himself. With affirmative enthusiasm, that's how. Back then, in 1941, Canaris was still riding high in the hierarchy of the Third Reich ...
... exactly quaking in their shiny jackboots. And not to mention the irony, of which Canaris, as chief of German military intelligence, would probably know all about as soon as anybody else did, i.e., in April of 1942, of the Doolittle Raid ...
... exactly what I'm saying to you , Admiral ? Yes , my Führer . I fully appreciate and understand and will take care of it at once . Even though I am the one telling you this tale , it's really Eddie's story as he told it to me , and as I ...
... exactly what had happened at Pearl Harbor. We were told it was bad, but we had no idea just how bad it had been until much later in the war. So, sometime in the late 1960s, as I recall, I asked Eddie Weems to tell me something about the ...
... exactly how it would be . " He put on the car lights and got out and stood there in the rain watching . Some of the young women did a kind of double take when they saw Eddie standing in the light and waved at him . " Hey , Eddie ...
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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 |