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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... Enchanted Ground OTHER James Jones Understanding Mary Lee Settle The Sorrows of Fat City My Silk Purse and Yours Going to See the Elephant Bad Man Blues Southern Excursions CONTENTS Prologue : Independence Day Feeling Good , Feeling Fine.
... understand then any more than he does now, he will tell his grandchildren, and anyone else who will bother to listen to him, all about his Uncle Jack, who was, briefly—but is not all beauty and all great achievement as brief as the ...
... understand me, Admiral? Yes, sir. I want the operation to take place immediately. You understand that? Yes, sir. Like immediately, if not sooner. (Let me pause here long enough to say the chances are that the Führer did not say “farting ...
... understand exactly what I'm saying to you , Admiral ? Yes , my Führer . I fully appreciate and understand and will take care of it at once . Even though I am the one telling you this tale , it's really Eddie's story as he told it to me ...
... understanding was that later on, and as soon as possible, he would quietly be set free. In his excellent and informative Atlantic piece, Gary Cohen writes: “Dasch and Burger spent some six years in U.S. Prisons and then were deported to ...
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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 |