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Singleton, George

 
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From the author of These People Are Us comes a zany new collection of short stories that captures the entertaining lives of such characters as the boy whose reputation is ruined forever after he stars in a documentary on diagnosing head lice, a self-described primitive artist who is mistaken for a faith healer, and a lovelorn father who woos his child's third-grade teacher. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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George Singleton graduated from Furman University with a degree in philosophy and from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, with an M.F.A. in creative writing. He teaches writing at South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities and lives in Pickens County, South Carolina, with the clay artist Glenda Guion and their eleven dogs and one cat.

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A BOOK MAGAZINE Best Short Story Collection of the Year

In a South far removed from big-city Atlanta and proper Charleston is a town so tiny it missed the map: Forty-Five, South Carolina. Here a boy's reputation is ruined forever when he stars in an educational documentary about head lice; a former pharmaceuticals salesman waits for the word of God to tell him what to paint; a single dad woos a teacher with the show-and-tell objects he sends to school with his son; and motivational speakers, aquarium salesmen, flea-market shoppers, and palm readers mingle with hilarious results.
Overlooked, underappreciated, and funnier than a potbellied pig on a leash, the residents of Forty-Five are utterly impossible to forget.

"Relentlessly offbeat . . . A disturbingly askew-at times, downright surreal-vision of the South."-Entertainment Weekly

"Singleton's voice comes off like that of a brilliant barfly, who occasionally suffers from the clairvoyance of madness."-The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

"Sly, intelligent, hilarious."-The Charlotte Observer

George Singleton has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, and Zoetrope. The author of the short-story collection These People Are Us, he teaches writing at South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities and lives in Pickens County, South Carolina.

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