Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
by RANDALL KENAN | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0156505150 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0156505150 Global Overview for this book
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Amazon.com: In these short stories, Randall Kenan makes the people of Tims Creek so real that one expects to take a map and go meet them. These are "real" people with a history, with folklore, with religion, with complex relationships. The stories explore a variety of situations — the hypocritical preacher, the family accepting the sexual orientation of a son, the "perfect woman" snapping under the pressures of "perfection," the double-crossed and financially strapped worker, religious law vs. the reality of a hard-scramble life, new life from a May-December affair ... It is in the selection of detail that Kenan excells — the history of Tims Creek refers to well known gospel hymns that perfectly identify the tone of community. Or the mother proud of her son, a medical research doctor in Salt Lake City who would be more proud if he'd stayed in North Carolina. Or the cadences of a southern preacher in internal dialogue — "Fire. Nostrils. The four winds. Breath. Her breath. Some days stale, some days sweet, some days stinking of fish and onions." — M. J. Smith
Copyright date: 1992.
Amazon.com: In these short stories, Randall Kenan makes the people of Tims Creek so real that one expects to take a map and go meet them. These are "real" people with a history, with folklore, with religion, with complex relationships. The stories explore a variety of situations — the hypocritical preacher, the family accepting the sexual orientation of a son, the "perfect woman" snapping under the pressures of "perfection," the double-crossed and financially strapped worker, religious law vs. the reality of a hard-scramble life, new life from a May-December affair ... It is in the selection of detail that Kenan excells — the history of Tims Creek refers to well known gospel hymns that perfectly identify the tone of community. Or the mother proud of her son, a medical research doctor in Salt Lake City who would be more proud if he'd stayed in North Carolina. Or the cadences of a southern preacher in internal dialogue — "Fire. Nostrils. The four winds. Breath. Her breath. Some days stale, some days sweet, some days stinking of fish and onions." — M. J. Smith
Copyright date: 1992.
Journal Entry 2 by LettersCafe at Wegmans, 500 South Meadow St. in Ithaca, New York USA on Saturday, January 1, 2011
