Signals: New And Selected Stories
by Tim Gautreaux
Buy on Amazon"A widely celebrated novelist gives us a generous collection of exhilarating short stories, proving that he is a master of this genre as well. Once again, "he reminds us," wrote The Miami Herald, "that great writing is a timeless art." After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with twelve new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina and even in midwinter Minnesota.…
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"“Several angry looking people sat in hot cars, their faces carrying the uncomprehending disappointment of boiled crabs.” That is how Tim Gautreaux describes the denizens of a steamy Walmart parking lot in Louisiana.
Gautreaux is the son of a Cajun tugboat captain, but he has never liked being described as a “Southern writer.” His latest book of short stories presents vivid, poignant portraits of a junk collector in Ohio, a furnace repairman in Minnesota, a Latvian in Louisiana and many other working-class characters who want to do good but struggle. You root for them – you’re completely drawn into their world. And that, for me, is the mark of a great writer."
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