Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 175 mm, Gewicht: 340 g
Tales of a Beleaguered Boyhood
Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 175 mm, Gewicht: 340 g
ISBN: 978-1-61117-245-4
Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
Accomplished South Carolina storyteller George Singleton has been called ""the unchallenged king of the comic southern short story"" by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ""a breakthrough writer you need to know"" by Book magazine, and ""a big-hearted evil genius who writes as if he were the love child of Alice Munro and Strom Thurman"" by novelist Tony Earley. Singleton's third collection, <em>Why Dogs Chase Cars</em>, comprises fourteen uproarious short stories about Mendal Dawes, a young boy coming of age in the backwoods town of Forty-Five, South Carolina, and coming to terms with his eccentric but well-intentioned father. Singleton uses an earnest and consistently comic voice as he skilfully navigates themes of race, class, family, and Southern heritage. In his vision of the small-town South, where the ""gene pool [is] so shallow that it wouldn't take a Dr. Scholl's insert to keep one's sole dry,"" cynicism ultimately gives way to empathy and an understanding of the empowering ties that always bind one to home and family. <br><br>This Southern Revivals edition includes a new introduction by Singleton himself, as well as a previously unpublished story, ""Poetry,"" and an expanded ending to ""The Earth Rotates This Way,"" the final piece in the collection.
