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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... Night A Wreath for Garibaldi The Magic Striptease An Evening Performance Whistling in the Dark Novels The Finished Man Which Ones Are the Enemy? Do, Lord, Remember Me Death of the Fox The Succession Poison Pen Entered from the Sun The ...
... night. Everybody might as well have some fun while they were at it. And it could have gone along just like that indefinitely, right up until the end of the war, maybe, if the Führer hadn't suddenly sent for Canaris and asked how things ...
... press. Lest the people should lose heart, it is a time for some bold sym- bolic gestures, a little good publicity. The Brits are commencing to bomb some of the German cities late at night. No 11 A Story Goes with It.
Stories George Garrett. bomb some of the German cities late at night. No real harm done, but it's a thought, a beginning. They also make some little com- mando raids on the Lofoten Islands (in late December) and man- age to blow up some ...
... night, while returning to Austin after partaking festively of chocolate milk and Jack Daniels (which does not represent depraved taste, as so many people have believed), we had a flat—just south of Waco. The tire- changing process 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 |