Family Men - Hardcover

Yarbrough, Steve

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ISBN 10: 080711619X ISBN 13: 9780807116197

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, 1990

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Eleven stories depict the special qualities of small-town Southern life and the relationships between ordinary men and women

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Taut, masterfully executed efforts tracing the growth of character. Even those that are slightly off the mark are revealing in their depictions of quirky southern poor whites with precious few aspirations . The bleakness of Yarbrough s landscape is thus richly tempered by the promise of a modest deliverance. Publishers Weekly"

Yarbrough s collection is a compassionate portrait of small-town life in the Deep South. Indianola, Mississippi is often the setting, and often the narrator looks back at the misunderstood events of childhood, at the complexities of family relationships . Lives get sidetracked, but family ties are deep and redeeming. These stories are regional in setting, but they are universal in appeal. Library Journal"

Yarbrough writes of small-town southern life with humor and insight Booknews"

Thank heaven for work like Brother Yarbrough s fiction fine and wise enough to keep an acre of angels sitting and dancing till dawn. Lee K. Abbott, author of Dreams of Distant Lives"

An outstanding collection of stories that are funny and sad and deeply touching. Steve Yarbrough has written a wonderful book. Larry Brown, author of Dirty Work"

"Taut, masterfully executed efforts tracing the growth of character. Even those that are slightly off the mark are revealing in their depictions of quirky southern poor whites with precious few aspirations.... The bleakness of Yarbrough's landscape is thus richly tempered by the promise of a modest deliverance."--Publishers Weekly

"Yarbrough's collection is a compassionate portrait of small-town life in the Deep South. Indianola, Mississippi is often the setting, and often the narrator looks back at the misunderstood events of childhood, at the complexities of family relationships.... Lives get sidetracked, but family ties are deep and redeeming. These stories are regional in setting, but they are universal in appeal."--Library Journal

"Yarbrough writes of small-town southern life with humor and insight"--Booknews

"Thank heaven for work like Brother Yarbrough's--fiction fine and wise enough to keep an acre of angels sitting and dancing till dawn."--Lee K. Abbott, author of Dreams of Distant Lives

"An outstanding collection of stories that are funny and sad and deeply touching. Steve Yarbrough has written a wonderful book."--Larry Brown, author of Dirty Work

About the Author:

Steve Yarbrough is the author of nine books including his latest novel, The Realm of Last Chances. His previous novels include Safe from the Neighbors, The End of California (a finalist for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for fiction), Prisoners of War (a finalist for the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award), and The Oxygen Man (winner of the California Book Award, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, and the Mississippi Authors Award). His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology and has also been published in Ireland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Japan, and Poland. In 2010 Yarbrough won the Richard Wright Award.

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