Little Reef and other stories
By: Michael Carroll
Contributors: Carroll, Michael (Writer), author
Publisher: Terrace Books, a trade imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Madison, Wisconsin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780299297404; 9780299297435
Copyright date: 2014
Work titles: Short stories
Description: From Key West to Maine, this collection of stories depicts the lives of characters who are no longer provincial but are not yet cosmopolitan. These women and their gay male friends are B-listers of a new, ironic, media-soaked culture. They live in a rich but increasingly divided America, a weirdly paradoxical country increasingly accepting of gay marriage but still marked by prejudice, religious strictures, and swaths of poverty and hopelessness. Carroll shows us people stunned by the shock of the now, who have forgotten their pasts and can't envision a future.
Table of contents: title: Part one: After Dallas; title: From the desk of . . . Hunter B. Gwathmey; title: Referred pain; title: Barracuda; title: Her biographers; title: Little Reef; title: Pascagoula; title: Werewolf; title: Part two: After Memphis; title: First responder; title: Admissions; title: Lack; title: Avenging angel; title: Unsticking.