These People Are Us

by George Singleton

Overview

"A bouncer videotapes an episode of Bonanza over his wife's sonogram and scrambles to find a replacement, an ex-poet takes a job driving a van that provides mammograms, and an office-supply salesman falls for a woman from an all-girl wrestling revue in a town called Kingdom Come in George Singleton's These People Are Us."--Publishers Weekly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938103520
Publisher:	Dzanc Books
Publication date:	04/26/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	163
File size:	418 KB

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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