Spit baths : stories / Greg Downs.
Examining the nooks and crannies of contemporary backwater life in the South and Midwest, Downs's debut collection opens with a kaleidoscopic description of an extended family breaking apart that is as disorienting as it is beautiful. "Black Pork" follows a white minor league pitcher...
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| Language: | English |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
©2006.
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| Series: | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
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Table of Contents:
- Adam's curse
- Black pork
- The hired man
- Snack cakes
- Spit baths
- Field trip
- A comparative history of Nashville love affairs
- Indoor plumbing
- Freedom rides
- Ain't I a king too?
- Domestic architecture
- Hope chests
- Between states.