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The Half-Mammals of Dixie
George Singleton
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Synopsis |
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This second collection of short stories by a bright star in Southern fiction showcases a town so tiny it missed the map, the gleefully off-the-wall Southerners who refuse to be pigeonholed, and a South far removed from big-city Atlanta and proper Charleston. As the author says of his characters, "They're regular people just trying to get by." Among them: a boy whose reputation is ruined when he appears in a head-lice documentary; a lovelorn father who woos his third-grader's teacher with creative show-and-tells; and a former pharmaceuticals salesman who waits for the word of God to tell him what to paint on next the "primitive" canvases he sells for big bucks to an art dealer.
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Praise |
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"Singleton's relentlessly offbeat stories are a miasma of flea markets, palm readers, bowling alleys, and alligator." --Entertainment Weekly
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"Hilarious...keeps the humor volume on high. " --The Seattle Times
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"[A] marvelously skewed and skewering collection of stories ... a book by turns raucous and enigmatic, and by and large inspired and inventive." --The San-Diego Union Tribune
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Biography |
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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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General Subjects |
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Fiction- Short Stories (single author)
Fiction- Humorous
Fiction- General
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Academic Disciplines & Course Studies |
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English Language & Literature- American Literature
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Rights Details |
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Harvest Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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