Fish Grooming and Other Stories: Short Stories by Joseph Powell

Powell, Joseph

ISBN 10: 159661076X / ISBN 13: 9781596610767

Published by March Street Pr, 2007

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Synopsis:

Joseph Powell s stories catch small-town people at awkward, heartfelt moments. I ve had four husbands, an elderly woman tells a hairdresser, and I m working on the fifth. And I loved them all, the dears. They were as different as mongrel dogs. To a teenage boy, the lust he feels for his older brother s girlfriend feels plain wrong, like goosing the Queen of England or watching the sway of a nun s breasts beneath her habit. Meanwhile, at the funeral of a rough and opinionated matriarch she used to grind her cigarettes out with her right foot, but now is getting buried in an orange satiny dress with a matching belt and buttons up the front the younger grandson tries to figure out why his older brother, just back from Vietnam, is weeping. A lovely wit and sympathy knit these tales of working class life in the western U.S. These stories have that utterly unfakeable tone that takes over when writers are talking about stuff they ve been watching for years. Philip Garrison, Author of Because I Don t Have Wings

From the Inside Flap: There s an earthy, everyday, human quality to this collection of stories. It is set in small town America with folks who inhabit their natural surroundings and create human bonds, that are real and life-defining, even when they seem to fall. The natural deftness of the storytelling becomes its subjects: these are intimately local people, but their lives contain many others, not because they are a microcosm of anything else, but because they tease out living from the wayside of the mundane. Paulus Pimomo, Editor of Journal of Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies

Bibliographic Details

Title: Fish Grooming and Other Stories: Short ...
Publisher: March Street Pr
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very_good