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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... head and moves back deeper. “One more,” he hollers. “Just one more.” Crack of the bat on the ball, and this is the best one yet. A home run ball in the fading light, almost lost in the last blue of the sky. The man shading his eyes as ...
... head for home in the twilight . " You hit that last one a helluva good lick , " Uncle Jack says . “ You could be a real hitter if you put your mind to it . It's all in the coor- dination , and you have got that , all you could ever need ...
... head like a melody and take its place. Chances were good, really, that nothing would ever come of this one. Canaris would have to cover his ass, to be sure. Well, he would set things in motion and then see what, if anything, came to ...
... head , and keeping time with the windshield wipers , driving along at a crawl . Here comes a Texas State Trooper blinking and flashing his lights . Pulls me over . Parks and comes around to my window and raps on it . I run it down ...
... head was nodding with pure fatigue. I thought we might turn out to be the first men in the history of the 500 Club to fall asleep during a table dance. “Finally, after Eddie had signed plenty of credit card slips and spread plenty of ...
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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 |