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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... turning, he sees his father, smiling in shirtsleeves, coming out of the living room with the evening paper in his hands. “Here they are,” he says. “Here come our baseball players just in time for supper.” A Story Goes with It Fade In ...
... turned into effective spies or saboteurs. They were all going to die. And what if these people had sense enough to run off and forget about the whole thing? Or if they turned themselves in to the Americans? So what? Never mind. No harm ...
... turned out not to be quite so bad as everybody had expected . It was a powerful storm , though . When we finally got to Galveston , the place was pretty much evacuated and aban- doned except for ( as ever and always ) cops and firemen ...
... turning , classic thriller deftly plotted and enhanced by the usual required ingredients of sex and vio- lence , murder and mayhem . Just as it is , it would make a swell action movie . In his blurb , Richard Elman called it “ a movie ...
... Turned out, or so it seemed, she was a former dancer at the 500 Club who had recently married the man she was with. She introduced him all around. And then they sat down at a table. After a little while, one of the naked dancers ...
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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 |