Empty Bed Blues: StoriesUniversity of Missouri Press, 2006 M04 1 - 208 páginas The fifteen stories of George Garrett’s Empty Bed Blues (his eighth book-length collection) are vintage Garrett—no two alike—with each moving, one way and another, in new and daring directions. His stories are deeply concerned with the old verities of love and death and filled with the joys and woes of characters who come to life and command our attention. Diversity is the key word for Garrett’s short fiction. He works in every known form and invents a few himself. In “A Story Goes with It,” Garrett fondly remembers an old friend while retelling a story the man once told him. Most of it is probably not accurate, as Garrett is quick to admit, but the mixture of fact with fiction makes for an entertaining read. His stories turn like the sharp curves of a mountain road, abruptly changing from a fond trip down memory lane to a sleazy reporter’s quest along the backroads for the ultimate crime story in “Pornographers.”He tops off his collection with “A Short History of the Civil War,” a series of poems written by two participants: one a Confederate, the other a Yankee. In the marriage of fact and fiction, of comedy and pathos, and the music of many voices, the stories of Empty Bed Blues reconfirm the judgment of novelist and story writer Richard Bausch, who said in 1998: “There is no writer on the American scene with a more versatile, more eclectic, or more restless talent than George Garrett.” |
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... sometimes thinks , but doesn't say . Said it once , though , and his father corrected him . “ Listen , boy , he's rusty and he hasn't been well . But believe me , I'm here to tell you , he was some kind of a baseball player . A real ...
... sometimes does a little part-time, amateur, after-hours spying on the side for the Resistance, picks up this trash and immediately turns it over to his superiors. So the French know all about it from the outset. And, indeed, they do ...
... sometimes dead bodies that washed up on the beach. We witnessed some firefights involving planes, Wildcats from a nearby airport, and German U-boats as tankers and freighters tried to run safely north or south close along the Florida ...
... sometime in the late 1960s, as I recall, I asked Eddie Weems to tell me something about the Nazi saboteurs of 1942. Have I already mentioned that Eddie and I were drinking? Bourbon on the rocks, I'm sorry to say (or am I?). We did a lot ...
... sometime . From here on Eddie's version of what really happened in the saboteur story differs significantly from all other accounts that I know of . If there is any truth , or even a serious probability in Eddie's version , then you ...
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3 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR | 50 |
4 THE MISERY AND THE GLORY OF TEXAS PETE | 57 |
5 TANKS | 61 |
6 EMPTY BED BLUES | 69 |
7 GHOST ME WHAT S HOLY NOW | 83 |
8 Spilling the Beans | 105 |
9 Pornographers | 117 |
10 With My BodyI Thee Worship | 124 |
11 HEROES | 147 |
12 A PERFECT STRANGER | 155 |
13 GATOR BAIT | 164 |
EPILOGUE | 177 |