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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... means to fight on all fronts. Surrender or a separate peace with the Japs doesn't seem to have been a serious option. These days somebody might try to cut a deal, but not then. How about the other side—Hitler's decision to declare war ...
... means of the saboteurs. Like the Doolittle Raid, it would serve chiefly as a little gesture to brighten up folks on the home front. When Hitler asked him how things were coming, what do you think Canaris said? He of course said that ...
... mean-looking pool-shooters rushed toward us with cues and bottles in their fists, shouting, “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 ...
... mean ? What happened ? " " I called in and dictated my story , and they took it all down care- fully and read it back to me . Then they fired me . Bill Hobby fired me in person . وو " Why did he do that ? ” " Beats me , " Eddie said ...
... means something like “buffoon” in English. For some reason they began to call them- selves Nazis. At least that's what Dillard says. And it was no joke by 1941, though you would have to admit that a movie/musical like The Producers ...
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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 |