Facing the music
Subtitle: stories
By: by Larry Brown.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Bright leaf short fiction ;; 6
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Description: Ten stories confront the dark side of human life as characters are challenged by crisis and pathology, including how a couple faces the disfigurement of cancer in the bedroom, the rationalizations of a wife beater, or the mind of a teenage killer.
Table of contents: title: Facing the music; title: Kubuku rides (This is it); title: The rich; title: Old Frank and Jesus; title: Boy and dog; title: Julie; title: Samaritans; title: Night life; title: Leaving town; title: The end of romance.