These People Are Us

by George Singleton

Overview

Once you start reading George Singleton's first book of smart, laugh-out-loud stories, a strange thing happens: You discover that the characters sound like people you know -- people who are trying hard to make sense of modern absurdities.

With a style all his own, Singleton shrewdly shapes a world built on seemingly everyday circumstances, a world that is both genuine and curious: how to find a black-market sonogram so your pregnant wife won't find out you accidentally taped over the original; how to help your father and everyone else in town fake being hit by a tornado to get emergency government funds; and why not look for your next wife at your local recycling center.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781880216941
Publisher:	River City Publishing
Publication date:	03/28/2001
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.37(w) x 9.38(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

GEORGE SINGLETON lives in Pickens County, South Carolina, with ceramicist Glenda Guion and their mixture of strays. More than a hundred of his stories have been published nationally in magazines and anthologies. He teaches writing at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities.

Table of Contents

	Remember Why We're Here	1
	Outlaw Head and Tail	17
	How I Met My Second Wife	33
	Directions for Seeing, Directions for Singing	51
	These People Are Us	65
	Normal	83
	Dialectic, Abrasions, the Backs of Heads Again	97
	Cleft for Me	113
	Caulk	129
	Rentals	147
	Santyana Speaks Through Me	163
	I Could've Told You If You Hadn't Asked	179
	The Ruptures and Limits of Absence	195
	Crawl Space	225

Editorial Reviews

PRAISE FOR THESE PEOPLE ARE US

"George Singleton has the singular voice of a down-home schizophrenic. His stories are crazy mad fun."--Playboy

"Plenty of sharp-witted humor . . . A raconteur of trends, counter-trends, obsessions and odd characters."--Morning Edition, NPR

"Every page has a sentence worth reading over again just to savor the image."--Winston-Salem Journal

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