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A little desert town gets a sexual charge from a crash-landed alien. A dysfunctional family tries to summit Everest with "discount Sherpas" and yakloads of emotional baggage. A teen messiah emerges from a game of 3-on-3. The stories in John Henry Fleming's "Songs for the Deaf," the first story collection by the "marvelously inventive" and "winningly satiric" author of "The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman," put an intimate and modern spin on the American tall tale.
Stories in the collection have appeared in "McSweeney's," "North American Review," "Atticus Review," "100% Pure Florida Fiction," and elsewhere.
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"All music worth playing is worth playing loud, and the volume on 'Songs for the Deaf' should be turned all the way up. John Henry Fleming riffs on renegade cloud readers, drifters seeking out their long-lost midwives, and random floating girls. ..." -- Jeff Parker, author of "Ovenman" and "The Taste of Penny" "cover copy"
"These stories somehow stay firmly on their tracks through wonderful narrative hairpin turns, the sentences sure in their gait, and as with most satisfying stories, it's hard to tell whether the characters have guided themselves to the serendipitous endings... or whether they've been secretly dragged there by the superb skill of the storyteller." -- John Brandon, author of "A Million Heavens" and "Citrus County" "cover copy"
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"These stories somehow stay firmly on their tracks through wonderful narrative hairpin turns, the sentences sure in their gait, and as with most satisfying stories, it's hard to tell whether the characters have guided themselves to the serendipitous endings... or whether they've been secretly dragged there by the superb skill of the storyteller." -- John Brandon, author of "A Million Heavens" and "Citrus County" "cover copy"
John Henry Fleming is the author of The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman, a novel, and Fearsome Creatures of Florida, a literary bestiary, and The Book I Will Write, a serial novel-in-emails. His short stories have appeared in journals such as McSweeney's, the North American Review, Mississippi Review, Fourteen Hills, and Carve, and have been anthologized in 100% Pure Florida Fiction and in The Future Dictionary of America. His awards include a Literature Fellowship from the State of Florida. He has a PhD in Creative Writing from The University of Louisiana-Lafayette, and is the founding editor of Saw Palm: florida literature and art.
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- PublisherBurrow Pr
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 098495385X
- ISBN 13 9780984953851
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages172
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