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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... eyes as he runs back and back until he's there where he has to be to snag it. Snags it. Then comes running in toward the boy, grinning, a loping outfielder who has made the final catch of an inning. You might think the boy would be ...
... eyes a little and maybe to take a brief nap . So we switched off . I was driving and Eddie was stretched out in the backseat of my old Rambler . He was snoring away like my old hound dog . The road was open and empty ( officially closed ) ...
... sea- weed and flotsam and jetsam . They proceed to shed their uniforms and bury them casually in the sand . They settle down to catch some shut - eye while waiting for dawn . While I was writing this story , I got in 29 A STORY GOES WITH ...
... eye flight very early the next morning on a ' Git - along - little - dogie ' airline , en route to Abilene Christian College , I think . And we were already pretty bushed - ten readings in eight days ( or was it eight readings in ten ...
... eyes , which are in the shadow of his visor , we would know better .... There are other photos of Canaris in The Shadow War . In a full- page portrait , from a certain angle ( again he has just turned towards the camera ) , Canaris ...
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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 |