Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (Hardcover)

by Andy Duncan (Author), Michael Bishop (Foreword)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
Beluthahatchie and Other Stories is kind of an eyebrow-raising collection: the author had seen barely more than nine stories in print at publication time, and he's got a gorgeous hardcover collection from a respected publisher, containing nine of those stories plus two previously unpublished. Andy Duncan had better be great.

Well, he is. He's better than many decades-established veterans, with a keen ear for dialogue, a Southerner's love of storytelling, a gift for characterization, a fascination with obscure history and folklore, and a wonderfully weird mind. He presents an ethics-obsessed secret brotherhood of hangmen and a peripatetic electric-chair operator in "The Executioner's Guild." He brings a certain notorious Paris theater to life with strange romance and artistic envy in "Grand Guignol." "The Premature Burials" finds a gothic erotic charge in being buried alive. "Liza and the Crazy Water Man" shows as much affection for Southern ways and the now-obscure world of 1930s country music as the Coen Brothers' movie O, Brother, Where Art Thou?. --Cynthia Ward

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"I suspect we'll be seeing a lot more from Andy Duncan in years to come." -- Michael M. Levy, The New York Review of Science Fiction

...Faulkner-tinged Southern Gothic short fiction has been gathered together in this altogether remarkable debut collection. -- LOCUS

Altogether remarkable . . . Beluthahatchie is as good a collection as you'll see all year. -- Jonathan Strahan, Locus magazine, July 2000

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Golden Gryphon Press; 1st edition (October 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965590119
• ISBN-13: 978-0965590112
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,624,487 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Damn, December 17, 2000

By	Patrick O'Leary (Bloomfield Hills, Mi. USA) - See all my reviews

Damn what a fine book. Amazing range and passion, wonderful writing. Weird and sad, surprising and wise. And very, very funny. Damn. Read one story and try to imagine the author. Read another and try again. Read a third and you will give up. Andy Duncan's got some serious stories to tell us. And we have such a good time listening to his remarkably convincing and varied voices we don't figure that out till later. A grand collection.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every story a winner, December 5, 2001

By	Byron Tetrick (Fishers, Indiana USA) - See all my reviews

This book just won the World Fantasy Award and for good reason! My favorite story is "Fortitude" an alternate history fantasy about George Patton, but every story is unique and remarkable. And if you buy this book, don't let it sit on your shelf unread. Read one story at random and you will fall in love with Duncan's writing style and will probably finish the entire book in one sitting (I know I did!).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Delight, a Surprise, and an Original, November 21, 2002

By	James A. Stevens (San Juan, PR USA) - See all my reviews

Andy Duncan is a delight, a surprise, and an original. If you haven't yet sampled his work, in "Beluthahatchie and Other Stories" you've got the pleasure of discovering a huge new talent ahead of you. And if you're already familiar with his beautifully written and crafted stories, "Beluthahatchie and Other Stories" allows you to re-read, rediscover, and relish them as often as you wish -- and if you're like me, you'll find yourself dipping into this wonderful collection again and again.