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This collection of short stories presents a variety of characters from cultural backgrounds and settings that range from California to Eastern Europe.
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"I loved reading this new crop of stories. Like all the most talented writers, Steve Yarbrough just keeps getting better and better."--Larry Brown
"Steve Yarbrough's work dazzles me in every way. The Mississippi that he writes about is not one of magnolias and verandas but of offshore gambling and movie stars and forty-dollar steaks. Its veneer is no less glittering than the California he writes about with equal ease. What is revealed beneath these American surfaces is the sad depth of our common humanity. Yarbrough is a thoroughly American writer and the news of his superior talent needs to be heralded throughout this land that he writes of with such compassion and love."--Lewis Nordan
"Steve Yarbrough's magnificent Southern landscape has new highways, new money, espresso, some fancy architecture, and pretty much the same old grit and evil. To read Yarbrough's new collection of stories is to see precisely where we are."--William Harrison
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Advance Praise for Veneer:
"I loved reading this new crop of stories. Like all the most talented writers, Steve Yarbrough just keeps getting better and better."--Larry Brown
"Steve Yarbrough's magnificent Southern landscape has new highways, new money, espresso, some fancy architecture, and pretty much the same old grit and evil. To read Yarbrough's new collection of stories is to see precisely where we are."--William Harrison
"Steve Yarbrough's work dazzles me in every way."--Lewis Nordan
"Yarbrough evokes not the sentimentalized or the Gothicized South but one that is warm, engaging, and regognizable human."--Publishers Weekly
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- PublisherUniversity of Missouri Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0826211852
- ISBN 13 9780826211859
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Acclaimed short story writer Steve Yarbrough, whose works have been included in the Pushcart Prize anthology and The Best American Mystery Stories 1998, once again demonstrates his gift for vividly rendered characters and evocative themes in his latest collection of fiction.Veneer presents a variety of characters from cultural backgrounds and settings that range from California to Mississippi to Eastern Europe. Yarbrough's sensitive portrayals of loss and longing are individual and unsettling; a disaffected college football coach, a movie star with a "substance problem," and a small-town girl coming to grips with the murder of her mother are just a few examples of the turbulent lives he portrays. In every instance, each character is "constantly searching for some way to bridge the gap, so small and yet so vast, between a right move and a wrong one."A poignant theme running through this collection is the conflict between appearance and reality. Yarbrough presents the reader with deep narrative layers, juxtaposing the gritty present with nostalgic recollections of an idealized past or hopeful projections into a rosy future. "Veneer," the title piece, beautifully reveals the depth of this conflict. On the surface, the narrator, a married man whose family is away on vacation, enjoys a dinner with a woman who has been a longtime friend. Beneath that "veneer," however, lies a more complex, perhaps troubling, relationship between the two friends, a relationship only partially obscured by the comic recounting of a childhood Independence Day.Yarbrough is at his best when he offers us brief glimpses into his characters' minds and imaginations, brilliantly exposing subtle vulnerabilities as cracks in the veneer. "Bohemia" follows the travels of two young lovers as they explore Europe. The woman fears that her lover will abandon her, and when she wakes to find him gone one evening, she believes her fear is confirmed. Yet his return does not alleviate her insecurity. The reality of her lover's presence and her continued anxiety emphasize the many layers that constitute the woman's world.Diverse in locale, character, and content, the stories in Veneer present rare views into the rifts between husband and wife, parent and child, one sibling and another. Crafting these compelling, deceptively simple stories is a writer whose "true subject is the human heart." Seller Inventory # SONG0826211852
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Acclaimed short story writer Steve Yarbrough, whose works have been included in the Pushcart Prize anthology and The Best American Mystery Stories 1998, once again demonstrates his gift for vividly rendered characters and evocative themes in his latest collection of fiction.Veneer presents a variety of characters from cultural backgrounds and settings that range from California to Mississippi to Eastern Europe. Yarbrough\'s sensitive portrayals of loss and longing are individual and unsettling; a disaffected college football coach, a movie star with a \"substance problem,\" and a small-town girl coming to grips with the murder of her mother are just a few examples of the turbulent lives he portrays. In every instance, each character is \"constantly searching for some way to bridge the gap, so small and yet so vast, between a right move and a wrong one.\"A poignant theme running through this collection is the conflict between appearance and reality. Yarbrough presents the reader with deep narrative layers, juxtaposing the gritty present with nostalgic recollections of an idealized past or hopeful projections into a rosy future. \"Veneer,\" the title piece, beautifully reveals the depth of this conflict. On the surface, the narrator, a married man whose family is away on vacation, enjoys a dinner with a woman who has been a longtime friend. Beneath that \"veneer,\" however, lies a more complex, perhaps troubling, relationship between the two friends, a relationship only partially obscured by the comic recounting of a childhood Independence Day.Yarbrough is at his best when he offers us brief glimpses into his characters\' minds and imaginations, brilliantly exposing subtle vulnerabilities as cracks in the veneer. \"Bohemia\" follows the travels of two young lovers as they explore Europe. The woman fears that her lover will abandon her, and when she wakes to find him gone one evening, she believes her fear is confirmed. Yet his return does not alleviate her insecurity. The reality of her lover\'s presence and her continued anxiety emphasize the many layers that constitute the woman\'s world.Diverse in locale, character, and content, the stories in Veneer present rare views into the rifts between husband and wife, parent and child, one sibling and another. Crafting these compelling, deceptively simple stories is a writer whose \"true subject is the human heart.\" Seller Inventory # AMPLE0826211852
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