The Devil's tub
Subtitle: collected stories
By: Edward Hoagland
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781628724486
Subjects: American Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Meet the death-defying motorcycle trick riders in the carnival's Devil's Tub, a man who keeps an alligator in his bathtub, a Chinese launder in Coney Island in search of love, a frontiersman who saves himself from a mauling grizzly bear by hiding in a beaver dam, three men from a circus looking for trouble at a rodeo, a washed out boxer trying to to hang onto his career, and dozens of others rich characters. From the cramped and gritty streets of New York City to the wide open spaces of the Old West, Hoagland's characters pine, ache, create, observe, love, learn, and live in such precisely rendered stories that we are transported into each of their peculiar worlds.
Table of contents: title: The Devil's tub --; title: The final fate of the alligators --; title: The colonel's power --; title: Cowboys --; title: Kwan's Coney Island --; title: The beaver house --; title: The last Irish fighter --; title: Circus dawn --; title: The witness --; title: I have a bid.