These People Are Us: Stories

These People Are Us: Stories

by George Singleton
These People Are Us: Stories

These People Are Us: Stories

by George Singleton

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Overview

Once you start reading George Singleton's eagerly awaited first book of stories, a strange thing happens: You discover that the characters sound like people you know—people who are trying hard to make sense of modern absurdities.
With a style all his own, Singleton fashions a world that wins our hearts but teases our senses: how to find a black-market sonogram so your pregnant wife won't find out you accidentally taped over the original; how to help your father and everyone else in town fake being hit by a tornado to get emergency government funds; and why not to look for your next wife at your local recycling center.
Step into Singleton's world and you'll see why he is earning a reputation as one of the funniest, wisest, and most surprising Southern writers of his generation—and why he was named one of the "new writers you need to know" by Book Magazine.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780156012744
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 09/16/2002
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

GEORGE SINGLETON lives in Pickens County, South Carolina, with ceramicist Glenda Guion and their mixture of strays. More than a hundred of his stories have been published nationally in magazines and anthologies. He teaches writing at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities.

Table of Contents

Remember Why We're Here1
Outlaw Head and Tail17
How I Met My Second Wife33
Directions for Seeing, Directions for Singing51
These People Are Us65
Normal83
Dialectic, Abrasions, the Backs of Heads Again97
Cleft for Me113
Caulk129
Rentals147
Santyana Speaks Through Me163
I Could've Told You If You Hadn't Asked179
The Ruptures and Limits of Absence195
Crawl Space225
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