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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... Look! They've come back—and they're taking our money!” After I had dropped their change and quickly picked up our own money from the correct table George—exhibiting his usual honest appraisal of any situa- tion—said to me (after we had ...
... look- ing for the silver lining . Thus the response of the New York office of the FBI to the news that a gang of German saboteurs was in town , while disappointing , was helpful . For one thing , it meant his luck was holding . Suppose ...
... look underneath your own pier and see if you can find some Nazi regalia and stuff from the other night when they landed there, okay?” The United States Coast Guard had no incentive whatsoever to find any evidence that a bunch of Nazis ...
... shouting “FBI! FBI! FBI! Drop your weapons! Drop your weapons!” Suddenly they recognize that they are all, for bet- ter or worse, FBI agents. They stand there and look at each other sheepishly. Lucky 37 A Story Goes with It.
Stories George Garrett. They stand there and look at each other sheepishly. Lucky nobody was hurt. As it dawns on them what has happened, they turn as if synchronized to look at the bathroom door. Cut To Bathroom Haupt in tub, terrified ...
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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 |