Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9780801840920 Add to Cart Academic Inspection Copy

Lithuania:

Short Stories (POD)
  • ISBN-13: 9780801840920
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Joe Ashby Porter
  • Price: AUD $73.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/12/1990
  • Format: Paperback 160 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]
Description
Reviews
Google
Preview
The author of 'Eelgrass' and 'The Kentucky Stories' now offers a collection of 'mysterious and beautiful' (Lee Smith) stories, 'as subtle, syntactically graceful, and beautiful as any I've seen' (Toby Olson).

""In stories set in such diverse places as Tunisia, Quebec and Baltimore, Porter ( The Kentucky Stories ) conjures up quirky, gritty characters and surrounds them with evocative swatches of local color. The stories meander along, with no startling plot developments but with a delightfully wry realism. In ""Basse Ville,"" a crusty old Canadian coot who fancies himself a painter searches for Sinbad, his missing parrot, and reflects on life, death and his wife (""What the hell, wonders of the universe probably only matter to you if you're about to kick off, so maybe it's all to the good for your wife not to bat an eye at them""). ""West Baltimore"" is the story of fat, semi-toothless Margaret, with her childhood memories, her present-day gossip and her fears that she will be evicted from her apartment as the neighborhood gentrifies. The only weak link in this excellent collection is ""Attention, Shoppers,"" an overly arch riff on consumerism in the far future. But even this piece has its droll moments (""When I first slid my toots into those beauts Big Bird shoes and slid across the permaseal I felt more serene than Goethe ice-skating in the old picture"")""

Google Preview content