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You want more : selected stories / George Singleton ; [foreword by Tom Franklin].

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Spartanburg, South Carolina : Hub City Press, [2020]Description: xiii, 366 pages : 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781938235696
  • 193823569X
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s):
Contents:
The half-mammals of Dixie -- A man with my number -- This itches, y'all -- Four-way stop -- John Cheever, rest in peace -- Caulk -- When children count -- Fresh meat on wheels -- Lickers -- Director's cut -- Probate -- Show-and-tell -- The novels of Raymond Carver -- Outlaw head and tail -- I could've told you if you hadn't asked -- How to collect fishing lures -- Columbarium -- Vaccination -- Staff's picks -- Traditional development -- Hex keys -- Unemployment -- How are we going to lose this one? -- Perfect attendance -- The opposite of zero -- Embarrassment -- Which rocks we chose -- Even Curs hate fruitecake -- Richard Petty accepts National Book Award -- What could've been.
Summary: "With his signature darkly acerbic and sharp-witted humor, George Singleton has built a reputation as one of the most astute and wise observers of the South. Now Tom Franklin introduces this master of the form with a compilation of acclaimed and prize-winning short fiction spanning twenty years and eight collections, including stories originally published in outlets like the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, and many more. These stories bear the influence of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver, at other times Lewis Nordan and Donald Barthelme, and touch on the mysteries of childhood, the complexities of human relationships, and the absurdity of everyday life, with its inexorable defeats and small triumphs"-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction SINGLETO GEORGE Available 33111010404529
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Thirty stories, collected in one volume for the very first time, from one of the South's best known and most acclaimed short story writers.

With his signature darkly acerbic and sharp-witted humor, George Singleton has built a reputation as one of the most astute and wise observers of the South. Now Tom Franklin introduces this master of the form with a compilation of acclaimed and prize-winning short fiction spanning twenty years and eight collections, including stories originally published in outlets like the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, and many more. A lovelorn and chatty euthanasia vet arrives at a couples' house to put down their dog, Probate; a father-to-be searches his workplace--a bar--for a replacement sonogram after recording an episode of Bonanza over the original; an unlikely romance sparks between a librarian and a professional bowler while they compete to win an RV; a father takes his son to visit the many ex-girlfriends that could have been his mother.

These stories bear the influence of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver, at other times Lewis Nordan and Donald Barthelme, and touch on the mysteries of childhood, the complexities of human relationships, and the absurdity of everyday life, its inexorable defeats and small triumphs. Assembled here for the very first time, You Want More showcases the body of work, hilarious and incisive, that has cemented George Singleton's place among the South's greatest living writers.

"With his signature darkly acerbic and sharp-witted humor, George Singleton has built a reputation as one of the most astute and wise observers of the South. Now Tom Franklin introduces this master of the form with a compilation of acclaimed and prize-winning short fiction spanning twenty years and eight collections, including stories originally published in outlets like the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, and many more. These stories bear the influence of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver, at other times Lewis Nordan and Donald Barthelme, and touch on the mysteries of childhood, the complexities of human relationships, and the absurdity of everyday life, with its inexorable defeats and small triumphs"-- Provided by publisher.

The half-mammals of Dixie -- A man with my number -- This itches, y'all -- Four-way stop -- John Cheever, rest in peace -- Caulk -- When children count -- Fresh meat on wheels -- Lickers -- Director's cut -- Probate -- Show-and-tell -- The novels of Raymond Carver -- Outlaw head and tail -- I could've told you if you hadn't asked -- How to collect fishing lures -- Columbarium -- Vaccination -- Staff's picks -- Traditional development -- Hex keys -- Unemployment -- How are we going to lose this one? -- Perfect attendance -- The opposite of zero -- Embarrassment -- Which rocks we chose -- Even Curs hate fruitecake -- Richard Petty accepts National Book Award -- What could've been.

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