The angel of the garden
Subtitle: stories
By: Scott Ely.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Description: Loners of one sort or another populate Ely's fiction, from a young man discharged from the marines and working as a solitary gamekeeper to a Vietnam veteran turned professor who exchanges favorable grades for sexual favors from his students. Whatever their situations, these characters all feel a deep sense of loss and alienation from the world around them.

Ely's perceptions about the desire to find security as well as the rhythms of his prose, his vivid detail, and the fullness of his characters make The Angel of the Garden a compelling collection of short fiction.
Table of contents: title: Talk radio; title: The gamekeeper; title: The angel of the garden; title: The Russian method; title: Achilles in Alabama; title: The literature teacher; title: The best tennis player in Alligator, Mississippi; title: Love in Singapore.