Surviving Nashville: Short Stories
by Stacy Barton
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Author: Stacy BartonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03-11
ISBN: 0974342785
Number of pages: 112
Publisher: WordFarm
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Book Review: Good and Evil, shaken, not stirred.
Summary: 5 Stars
These stories get into your head like your own memories. They are very short; they don't spare any words to explain or apologize for themselves. They just give vivid snapshots that, in a page or two, summarize a life, or several lives. You can see way before, and imagine way after, each narrative takes place.
Barton looks at the good, the evil, the beautiful, and the ugly of who we people are. We can see the world crashing in because of an unlikely first kiss, or understand how justified a mother in a trailer park can be for shooting the balls off her ex-husband. Like in memory, what is horrible also becomes the beautiful path to who we are.
Summary of Surviving Nashville: Short Stories
Full of humor and pathos, as southern stories ought to be, the fifteen short-shorts in this debut collection will haunt you. From simple family dysfunction to tragic twists of fate, the characters in Surviving Nashville suffer their losses with surprising grace. Stacy Barton is a storyteller with an ear for dialect, an eye for detail and a heart for her character--even the mean ones.Short Stories Books
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