Step into George Singleton's world and see why he is earning a reputation as one of the funniest, wisest, and most surprising Southern writers of his generation. Playboy magazine says, "Singleton's stories are crazy mad fun."
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A bouncer videotapes an episode of Bonanza over his wife's sonogram and scrambles to find a replacement, an ex-poet takes a job driving a van that provides mammograms, and an office-supply salesman falls for a woman from an all-girl wrestling revue in a town called Kingdom Come in George Singleton's These People Are Us. While the collection as a whole suffers from a uniformity of tone (all the baffled, overeducated narrators are basically the same guy) and theme (the scratch-yer-head differences between the sexes plus a dose of late 20th-century cultural malaise), taken individually these are fine stories odd, amusing and insightful. (River City
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"...these are fine stories -- odd, amusing and insightful." --Publishers Weekly, February 26,2001
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This is no lie!,
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George Singleton is one of those writers who appears regularly in the best of quarterlies and reviews: Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Glimmer Train, Southern Review, even a couple stories in Playboy. This deserved collection has been a long time coming.And this is no lie: this boy can write. His stories penetrate the South, depicting narrators in all manner of fixes (taping over a wife's sonogram, caulking a house to within an inch of its life, reporting on a fake tornado, helping blind men shoot pool) in a prose that is as elegant as the Peabody, as savory as barbecue. He nails the Southern experience (call it, perhaps, Good Ol Boy lit), creating empathetic characters and the funniest situations this side the Mississippi. There are classics here ("Crawl Space," "Outlaw Head and Tail," and the title story jump immediately to mind), stories that deserve to be read for generations to come. Treat yourself: try this book.
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No one writes like George Singleton. Every short story in this grand collection -- as good as, if not better than, J.D. Salinger's NINE STORIES -- is a classic gem. Told with tongue-in-cheek, "These People Are Us" views the world in Singleton's own inimitable vision, sliding through the cracks of life with a grand sweep. In stories that have been published in Playboy, Georgia Literary Review and other literary quarterlies, this collection sings as no other song can be sung. I wouldn't be a bit suprised if Singleton doesn't win the biggest awards in the land with this, his first book.
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My wife kept talking about convection ovens.,
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With that we begin a trip, a trip down the backroads of the south. A trip that includes dogs benesth the porch, recycled beer cans, and midget plumbers! Everything that makes the South great!George has replaced Raymond Carver as my favorite short story writer.
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Daney Mitchell, South Carolina, North Carolina, New York, Kingdom Come, Jill Shore, Ray Shirley, Sloppy Joes, Mimi Dubose, Reverend Jimmy, Scatterbrain Johnson, United States, Waffle House, Big Jim Shorts, Daisy Mae, Taco Bell, Burger King, Gladys Phillips, Myrtle Beach, Old Crow, Salvation Army, Super Doppler, Yard Waste New!
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