Distant friends and intimate strangers
Subtitle: stories
By: by Charles East.
Series: Sunsinger Books/Illinois short fiction
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Description: East's terrain is a South that in the age of TV soap operas and radio call-in shows is no longer easily distinguished from the rest of the country. In "The Girl Who Made It with Kennedy" a man finds himself unable to shake his memories of the girl or his flashbacks to Dealey Plaza. In another of the stories a son remembers a summer in flight with his father, the "Brain Surgeon" of the title, a man who knew next to nothing about the human heart - "didn't know the territory."
Table of contents: title: Sky watch; title: Mr. Alello; title: A perfect day; title: Crazy heart; title: Big red; title: Distant friends and intimate strangers; title: Pavane for a dead princess; title: Man of the house; title: The girl who made it with Kennedy; title: Days of our lives; title: Brain surgeon; title: The second summer of the war; title: The last person; title: The salvation of Jimmie Sue Kidder.