Same Place, Same Things: Stories
Set largely in rural Louisiana, Tim Gautreaux's masterful debut story collection follows men and women whose ordinary lives reach a point of rupture, a moment when convention gives way to crisis and everything changes: A drunken train engineer charges toward disaster, a father borrows and old airplane to chase down his daughter's kidnapper, a young man falls in love with a voice on the radio. Written with humor, suspense, and a powerful affection for humanity in all its wild forms, Same Place, Same Things is the first great work by a master of the form.

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Same Place, Same Things: Stories
Set largely in rural Louisiana, Tim Gautreaux's masterful debut story collection follows men and women whose ordinary lives reach a point of rupture, a moment when convention gives way to crisis and everything changes: A drunken train engineer charges toward disaster, a father borrows and old airplane to chase down his daughter's kidnapper, a young man falls in love with a voice on the radio. Written with humor, suspense, and a powerful affection for humanity in all its wild forms, Same Place, Same Things is the first great work by a master of the form.

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Same Place, Same Things: Stories

Same Place, Same Things: Stories

by Tim Gautreaux
Same Place, Same Things: Stories

Same Place, Same Things: Stories

by Tim Gautreaux

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Overview

Set largely in rural Louisiana, Tim Gautreaux's masterful debut story collection follows men and women whose ordinary lives reach a point of rupture, a moment when convention gives way to crisis and everything changes: A drunken train engineer charges toward disaster, a father borrows and old airplane to chase down his daughter's kidnapper, a young man falls in love with a voice on the radio. Written with humor, suspense, and a powerful affection for humanity in all its wild forms, Same Place, Same Things is the first great work by a master of the form.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312428785
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 01/06/2009
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Tim Gautreaux was born and raised in south Louisiana. His fiction has appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Story, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. He has taught creative writing for many years at Southern Louisiana University. He is the author of Same Place, Same Things.

Table of Contents

Same Place, Same Things

Waiting for the Evening News

Died and Gone to Vegas

The Courtship of Merlin LeBlanc

Navigators of Thought

People on the Empty Road

The Bug Man

Little Frogs in a Ditch

License to Steal

Floyd's Girl

Returnings

Deputy Sid's Gift

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