The Half-Mammals of Dixie
Author | : George Singleton |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2003 |
ISBN-10 | : 0156028581 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780156028585 |
Rating | : 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This second collection of short stories by a bright star in Southern fiction showcases a town so tiny it missed the map, the gleefully off-the-wall Southerners who refuse to be pigeonholed, and a South far removed from big-city Atlanta and proper Charleston. As the author says of his characters, "They're regular people just trying to get by." Among them: a boy whose reputation is ruined when he appears in a head-lice documentary; a lovelorn father who woos his third-grader's teacher with creative show-and-tells; and a former pharmaceuticals salesman who waits for the word of God to tell him what to paint on next the "primitive" canvases he sells for big bucks to an art dealer.