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2003

Format:	Book
Author:	Grau, Shirley Ann.
Title:	Selected stories / Shirley Ann Grau ; with a foreword by Robert Phillips.
Publisher, Date:	Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press, [2003] ©2003
Description:	x, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects:	Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Other Title:	Short stories. Selections
Notes:	055899 ; *055900 Old, unclassified state document.
Contents:	Flight -- The beginning -- The black prince -- The patriarch -- Letting go -- The wind shifting west -- The man outside -- Sea change -- Housekeeper -- The lovely April -- Homecoming -- One summer -- Hunter -- Home -- Summer shore -- Widow's walk -- Three -- The last gas station.
LCCN:	2003040141
ISBN:	080712883X (cloth : alk. paper)
Other Number:	51810793
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Genre
	Collection
	Fiction
	Southern fiction
Topics
	Southern life
Setting
	- South (U.S.)
Time Period
	-- 20th-21st century

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This collection of elegantly crafted short stories by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Grau (for The Keepers of the House, 1964) crackles with quiet intensity. Following in the footsteps of regional and thematic sisters Katherine Ann Porter, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty, she tackles the traditional subjects dear to a southern writer's heart. Handpicked by the author herself as most representative of her technique and sensibilities, these 18 tales tackle issues of race, class, power, love, loss, and salvation in an effectively understated fashion. Grau's tremendous powers of description, ability to conjure atmosphere, and impeccable prose elevate her to the top tier of American short story stylists. She may be unfamiliar to a lot of library fiction readers, but her gifts should be brought to the attention of any serious fiction appreciator. --Margaret Flanagan Copyright 2003 Booklist

Summary

This magnificent summation of the short stories of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Shirley Ann Grau gathers together eighteen gems ranking with the finest of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor.

Table of Contents

	Foreword Robert Phillips	p. vii
	Flight	p. 1
	The Beginning	p. 25
	The Black Prince	p. 35
	The Patriarch	p. 52
	Letting Go	p. 65
	The Wind Shifting West	p. 80
	The Man Outside	p. 99
	Sea Change	p. 112
	Housekeeper	p. 122
	The Lovely April	p. 138
	Homecoming	p. 152
	One Summer	p. 164
	Hunter	p. 192
	Home	p. 207
	Summer Shore	p. 224
	Widow's Walk	p. 241
	Three	p. 253
	The Last Gas Station	p. 267

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