Product Description
This collection of short stories brings together the work of four award-winning fiction writers from South Carolina. The range of styles and subjects of these stories is as diverse as the landscape of the Palmetto State--from the offbeat humor of George Singleton's
Outlaw Head and Tail, to the piercing passion of Rosa Shand's
Density of Sunlight, to the sprawling strange drama of Scott Gould's
Nothing Fazes the Autopilot, to the strange twists of Deno Trakas's
Eugene. Introductions to the authors are provided by prominent novelists Josephine Humphreys, Fred Chappell, Bret Lott and Shelby Hearon.
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From the Publisher
Inside these pages are philosophers and barkeeps, movie-makers and artists, airlane pilots and eccentric great-aunts, lovestruck teens and 40-something hoopsters. There are characters confronting race, defying convention, and exploring the meaning of love. Settings range from the semi-jungle of Uganda to the imaginary world of Christ Almighty, North Carolina; along the way, there are vine-covered Southern homesteads, damp campgrounds and ubiquitous suburban malls. There's even a house at the bottom of a lake. To tell more would be to reveal too many of the surprises found within the pages of
New Southern Harmonies. These are some of the best tales told by the most celebrated fiction writers of the South Carolina Piedmont. Some are brand-new stories; others have already been discovered and published by such noted journals and magazines as
The Kenyon Review,
The Oxford American, and
Playboy. Together, they create a delightful chorus that is clear powerful and destined to endure.
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