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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807131873
ISBN13:9780807131879
Release Date:October 2006
Publisher:LSU Press
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.7" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
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Uke River does Deliver
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This is a wonderful, poetic short story collection. The writing is like lightening. Some of stories (Uke River Delivers & Bitterwolf) rank among the finest stories I've ever read. R.T. Smith's writing, though charged, controlled, and always rhythmic is sometimes hard to follow. But so is Laurence Durrell and James Joyce. And, I dare say, they couldn't write stories with such historical, emotional flair. I highly recommend this to anyone, especially those interested in intelligent, Southern literary fiction.
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