The mighty Currawongs
Subtitle: & other stories
By: Brian Doyle
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781597090520
Subjects: American Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "A collection of headlong tales by Oregon author Brian Doyle - exploring such riveting and peculiar topics as chess in the Levant, tailors who specialize in holes, how to report stigmata to your attending physician, the intense hilarity of basketball, how to have a bitter verbal marital fight in your car, an all-Chinese football team in Australia, soccer and Catholicism, what it's like to be in a ska band, a singing Korean baker, an archbishop who loses his faith between the salad and the entrée genius Girl Scouts who save a radio station, and a baby born from a lake in Illinois. And some other fascinating stories. Really. Trust us"--
Table of contents: title: A surf story --; title: This is the part where you say something real --; title: The archbishop loses his faith --; title: Four Boston basketball stories --; title: In the Café Rue de Turenne, Charleroi, Belgium, 1943 --; title: Mr Kim's song --; title: Roma vs. Lazio --; title: Dear mum, --; title: Mr Oleander --; title: The mighty Currawongs --; title: Jesus Joseph --; title: Tthe detours --; title: Chauncy Street --; title: Guys who knew guys --; title: Elson Habib, playing white, ponders his opening move --; title: Elson Habib, playing black, ponders the end game --; title: Her kid --; title: The mermens --; title: The stigmata --; title: The people of West Kalimantan vs. the glorious Kayan warriors of Borneo --; title: The Lutheran Minister's daughter --; title: The new bishop --; title: A note on the actors --; title: The subtle theater --; title: On flinging the dog --; title: A note on countification --; title: KXMS --; title: When you're out of schlitz, you're out of beer --; title: It's all about teeth, in the end --; title: The guest speaker --; title: Sachiel the tailor --; title: Muirin --; title: The seventh.