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Detecting Metal

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This product was ordered for my son who loves metal detecting...he was thrilled when he could get help with his passion! Quick ship, arrived is great shape he said.Thanks

Fred Bonnie riffs on the writers who have influenced him. Each story is dedicated to a different author, everybody from O. Henry to Harry Crews, from Sarah Orne Jewett to Bernard Malamud, from Truman Capote to Jack Kerouac -- and none of the dedicatees is dishonored by the comparison. In these varied and thoughtful stories you'll meet such characters as a thirteen-year-old who "was once father to forty babies," a Crimson Tide Christian girl with an unusual litmus test for lovers, a drunken bank janitor brandishing a "magnificent two-hand, six-foot-long German sword from the fifteenth century," a man driving his dead brother from Alabama to Maine, and three liquored-up good ol' boys whose job is cleaning snake cages at the zoo. This is a good, solid collection of short stories by an unacknowledged master of the form, short stories that feature humor, heartbreak, and wisdom in equal parts. "Next to reading, drinking, and watching TV all at once, the surest sign of maturity is wisdom."