Uke Rivers Delivers: Stories - Brossura

Smith, R. T.

 
9780807131879: Uke Rivers Delivers: Stories
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ISBN 10: 0807131873 ISBN 13: 9780807131879
Casa editrice: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2006

Sinossi

In the best tradition of southern storytelling, Uke Rivers Delivers features raconteurs as beguiling as the tales they tell. These lyrical, darkly humorous monologues portray a range of denizens of the American South desperately trying to come to grips with their inherited pasts. A Confederate reenactor receives a message from the beyond to lay to rest the remains of Stonewall Jackson's horse. A docent at Washington and Lee University's Lee Chapel offers prim instruction on the facts and legends about ""the General"" with both reverence and irony. The young son of a lewd, alcoholic, self-dubbed evangelist acquires the wits - and the will - for survival by protecting the family's sunflower crops. A midget ukulele virtuoso is so surprised by his own eruption into violence that he can attribute it only to genetics. One of Jeff Davis's fellow cross-dressers; the killer of John Wilkes Booth; a Rebel deserter whose superior exacts his pound of flesh - all these characters and more, through their twisted and torn vernaculars, seek understanding and revival in R. T. Smith's superb collection.

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Editore
Louisiana State Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2006
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0807131873
ISBN 13 
9780807131879
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
142
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