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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... fact and fiction , comedy and pathos , and the voices of diverse characters while focusing on the themes of love and death as well as the complexities of human relations . " - Provided by publisher . ISBN - 13 : 978-0-8262-1630-4 ( pbk ...
... fact, true much of the time), they snapped to attention and shut up. Thus Canaris replied to the Führer that it sounded like a fine idea, a really swell idea, a neat plan, to him and that he would cer- tainly be able to take care of it ...
... fact or two, since we, here and now, can't quite be unaware of the eventual outcome, that things weren't going all that badly for the Axis or all that well for the Allies in late 1941 and early 1942. Out in the Pacific, our huge fleet ...
... fact, he probably overestimated it. Meantime, like almost everybody then and since then, including the American government, he greatly underestimated the courage and resolve of the American people, betting the farm that after he ...
... fact , already published a short ver- sion of it in the Sewanee Review , when there appeared on the scene a new book ... facts and digging out the important details . Like Eddie , he actually went to the places and interviewed the people ...
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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 |