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Lädt ... Uke Rivers Delivers: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction)von R. T. Smith
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In the best tradition of southern storytelling, Uke Rivers Delivers features raconteurs as beguiling as the tales they tell. These lyrical, darkly humorous monologues portray a range of denizens of the American South desperately trying to come to grips with their inherited pasts. A Confederate reenactor receives a message from the beyond to lay to rest the remains of Stonewall Jackson's horse. A docent at Washington and Lee University's Lee Chapel offers prim instruction on the facts and legends about "the General" with both reverence and irony. The young son of a lewd, alcoholic, self-dubbed evangelist acquires the wits -- and the will -- for survival by protecting the family's sunflower crops. A midget ukulele virtuoso is so surprised by his own eruption into violence that he can attribute it only to genetics. One of Jeff Davis's fellow cross-dressers; the killer of John Wilkes Booth; a Rebel deserter whose superior exacts his pound of flesh -- all these characters and more, through their twisted and torn vernaculars, seek understanding and revival in R. T. Smith's superb collection. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The few instances of success ("Plinking," "Stop the Rocket," "Razorhead the Axeman," and the title story) are quite good, but these are only 4 stories out of 16; and beyond these four, the collection falls away quickly. If you can get hold of any of these stories without spending the $17, that's the way to go.
A few of the pieces (most notably "Visitation" and "Blaze") peter out in the no-man's-land between vignette and story, almost as if they realize the ground they're working has been repeatedly tread for 60 years or more. "Visitiation" in particular is pointless rewriting of O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" (which the story itself seems to admit with it's peacock in the background), but in this case eviscerated of all social and moral context. With that stuff gone, who cares? ( )