Doghouse roses
Subtitle: stories
By: Steve Earle.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Earle's stories reflect the many facets of the man and the hard-fought struggles, the defeats, and the eventual triumphs he has experienced during a career spanning three decades.

In the title story he offers us a gut-wrenchingly honest portrait of a nearly famous singer whose life and soul have been all but devoured by drugs. "Billy the Kid" is a fable about everything that will never happen in Nashville, and "Wheeler County" tells a romantic, sweet-tempered tale about a hitchhiker stranded for years in a small Texas town.

A story about the husband of a murder victim witnessing an execution addresses a subject Earle has passionately taken on as a social activist, and a cycle of stories features "the American," a shady international wanderer, Vietnam vet, and sometime drug smuggler - a character who can be seen as Earle's alter ego, the person he might have become if he had been drafted."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Doghouse roses; title: Wheeler County; title: Jaguar dance; title: Taneytown; title: Billy the Kid; title: The Internationale; title: The red suitcase; title: A eulogy of sorts; title: The reunion; title: The witness; title: A well-tempered heart.