Cream of kohlrabi
Subtitle: stories
By: Floyd Skloot
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: North Adams, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781936797103; 9781936797059
Description: Skloot gathers 16 stories that combine unsentimental comedy and forceful emotion. As in his award-winning poetry and memoirs, his fiction shows how individual people, families, and communities face the starkest of challenges, including bodily maladies, the most harrowing of which often come with aging.
Table of contents: title: Plans; title: Alzheimer's noir; title: Cream of kohlrabi; title: The tour; title: Let us rejoice!; title: The shorefront manor; title: The wanderer; title: The royal family; title: Devoted to you; title: Karaoke night at the trail's end; title: The wings of the wind; title: The cage; title: The peanut vendor; title: The fights; title: Fresh mint; title: Replacement players.