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Bear Bryant Funeral Train: Stories (Flannery OConnor Award for Short - GOOD
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780820327457
- Book Title
- Bear Bryant Funeral Train
- Book Series
- Flannery O'connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Item Length
- 7.7 in
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author)
- Item Weight
- 12.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 170 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
082032745X
ISBN-13
9780820327457
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038756163
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bear Bryant Funeral Train
Number of Pages
170 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Flannery O'connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-017313
Reviews
In these complex, gorgeous stories, Brad Vice explores the darker corners of human hope and desire--the terror that love can bring us to, and the rage. What a rare pleasure it is to read stories so brilliantly imagined, brought to the page with power and majestic grace.
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
In these nine wistful and mordant, humane and brutal stories, Brad Vice leavens his own sympathetic inclinations with exquisitely timed, self-inflicted jolts of southern gothicism. Ranging widely in place and time - small-town Texas or Disney's Magic Kingdom, the Great Depression or some future, postpetroleum economy - Vice's stories are likewise rich in their variety of characters: a grieving but well-to-do cookbook author, an aged farmer with dirt under his nails and black magic in his soul, a software engineer dabbling in corporate espionage. In Tuscaloosa Knights, an infidelity unfolds along an Alabama back road. Inside the car Marla, an out-of-place northerner, trysts with Pinion, a local lawyer and friend of her husband. Outside, unreason rules - and it's robed in white. The woods are alive both with revved-up Klan members just back from a cross burning and with mental patients escaping a nearby state asylum. pregnant daughter injured in a car wreck, a brood of purple martin chicks, a favored son lost in a hunting accident - to portray a poor southern family falling apart even as it regenerates itself. In Report from Junction, a football scholarship to Texas A&M is Kurt Schaffer's best hope to escape a life spent riding fence lines under the killing sun. However, the Aggies have just appointed a new coach, Paul Bear Bryant (who moves in and out of a number of these stories, both in body and in spirit). Daily news dispatches of the Bear's brutality leave Kurt wondering what else life may offer but pain and hardship. Plenty, would be Brad Vice's reply. But, as the Bear would advise, don't get too comfortable, and keep looking over your shoulder., In these nine wistful and mordant, humane and brutal stories, Brad Vice leavens his own sympathetic inclinations with exquisitely timed, self-inflicted jolts of southern gothicism. Ranging widely in place and time--small-town Texas or Disney's Magic Kingdom, the Great Depression or some future, postpetroleum economy--Vice's stories are likewise rich in their variety of characters: a grieving but well-to-do cookbook author, an aged farmer with dirt under his nails and black magic in his soul, a software engineer dabbling in corporate espionage. In "Tuscaloosa Knights," an infidelity unfolds along an Alabama back road. Inside the car Marla, an out-of-place northerner, trysts with Pinion, a local lawyer and friend of her husband. Outside, unreason rules--and it's robed in white. The woods are alive both with revved-up Klan members just back from a cross burning and with mental patients escaping a nearby state asylum. "Chickensnake" mingles images of birth and mortality--a litter of kittens, a pregnant daughter injured in a car wreck, a brood of purple martin chicks, a favored son lost in a hunting accident--to portray a poor southern family falling apart even as it regenerates itself. In "Report from Junction," a football scholarship to Texas A&M is Kurt Schaffer's best hope to escape a life spent riding fence lines under the killing sun. However, the Aggies have just appointed a new coach, Paul "Bear" Bryant (who moves in and out of a number of these stories, both in body and in spirit). Daily news dispatches of the Bear's brutality leave Kurt wondering what else life may offer but pain and hardship. "Plenty," would be Brad Vice's reply. But, as the Bear would advise, don't get toocomfortable, and keep looking over your shoulder.
LC Classification Number
PS3622.I26B43 2005
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- 0***a (557)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThis item arrived as described, fast and packaged very well . I only received half of my order on one day so I contacted the seller who and with fast and a great help. I received the rest of my order a few days later due to the carrier missing the third box in his vehicle. I am a very happy customer who has done business with in the past multiple time and will do business with again in the future. I trust and like this seller. You will be happy with the value and condition of your purchase.I'm Just Here for More Food: Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking - Hardcover - GOOD (#266005238505)
- u***a (260)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseI have purchased from them many times. This time, and on occasion I have had an issue with the product, but the seller is graceful about correcting errors. They do a huge volume and sometimes have sent the wrong book or one of their multiples that does not match the description. With swift communication, the seller always resolves the issue. The shipping speed & packaging is excellent. I will continue buying from this seller!Moving Pictures - Mass Market Paperback By Terry Pratchett - ACCEPTABLE (#256674790061)