Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction)
Edición de la obra Uke Rivers Delivers
| Autor | R. T. Smith |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Louisiana State University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | August 14, 2006 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 142 |
| Formato | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9780807131879 |
| ISBN-10 | 0807131873 |
| OCLC | 70046005 |
| LCCN | 2006018761 |
| Número de Cutter | S657u |
"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 ukelele 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"--Publisher website (January 2007).