The Gator and the Holy Ghost and Other Stories of a Slightly Reconstructed South

by James Fortuna

Overview

Have you ever seen the Devil singing with a choir? Did you ever drink a beer with a wolf-man? These and many more such images propel The Gator and the Holy Ghost and other Stories of a Slightly Reconstructed South. This bold collection of short fiction by James L. Fortuna Jr. explores the upheaval of the civil rights movement in the Deep South. In stories such as “Break of Day at the Woodbine, Georgia, Pecan Paradise and Cheap Gas” and “The Klansman in the Closet”—and many more-- Fortuna’s characters reveal the fear and uncertainty, hope and hatred of the Southern experience and the healing influence of faith.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015802351
Publisher:	Lightnin' Bug Publishing
Publication date:	12/02/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	143 KB

About the Author

James L. Fortuna Jr. is a banjo player who supports himself by teaching English and Holocaust Studies courses at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was educated in Florida, including a PhD in Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Literature from the University of Florida. His first book, The Unsearchable Wisdom of God: A Study of Providence in Richardson's Pamela, was published as part of the University Florida Monographs in the Humanities series. Fortuna has taught English and other disciplines at the University of Florida, Wilkes Community College, and Salem College. He and his wife Kathleen are the property of a cat named Marley.

Editorial Reviews

"Faulkner told us, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."

James "Jim" Fortuna Jr. confirms that in his new e-book of short stories, "The Gator and the Holy Ghost" (Lightnin' Bug Publishing). He depicts a South that is not just weird but also grotesque and glorious all at the same time, something along the lines of "The Canterbury Tales" meets the Klan."

Winston-Salem Journal - John Railey