Tales from the Holy Land
By: stories by Rafael Alvarez
Contributors: Booth, Max, editor
Publisher: Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chibolo, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780986059407
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: American Short stories; Fiction
Description: Tales from the Holy Land is the third collection of short fiction from the Baltimore author and screenwriter. The stories take place along the narrow streets and alleys of Alvarez's heartbreaking hometown, charting secret histories of the last 100 years through the difficult and hopeful lives of tugboat men, junk collectors, beautiful women, short order cooks and an artist who captures it all in house paint on the sides of abandoned buildings.
Table of contents: title: Aboard the Miss Agnes; title: The Aishe Cooper story; title: Junie Bug; title: Jude the Impaler; title: The king of a rainy kingdom; title: Granada in the drink; title: An alley most narrow; title: Room 829; title: Johnny Winter dream sequence; title: The sacred heart of Ruthie; title: The ambassador strictures; title: The Basilio stories: I know why I was born; title: Too rolling Tookie; title: Wedding day; title: The fountain of Highlandtown; title: Long Vietnam of my soul; title: Nine innings in Baltimore; title: Aunt Lola; title: The Ganges of Baltimore.