Dirtyville rhapsodies
Subtitle: stories
By: by Josh Green
Publisher: Dionysus Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781937056636
Subjects: Vice; Fiction; Cities and towns
Description: "Do you really know your neighbors, America? Look again. Look closer. This darkly comic short story collection focuses on ordinary people caught in all manner of conundrums, fiascoes, and legal dilemmas, much of it their own stinking fault. Set mostly in Atlanta (capital of the "Dirty South"), Dirtyville Rhapsodies features everyday folks who overcome vice and personal tragedy, scoundrels so foul they attract news headlines, and the wayward souls who find salvation in society's crevasses. Some of them will weave meaning from pratfalls, devastating loss, and downright stupidity. And some won't."--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: Twenty-first century itch; title: The bushmaster; title: Pinch points; title: The abduction; title: Exultation; title: Lowcountry; title: The gulch; title: The dirty dawn; title: Missing Athena; title: The delusional Mister Necessary; title: In the predawn; title: Blood allies; title: Spaghetti Junction; title: Clarity; title: Down and out at the breastfeeding school; title: Axis of symmetry; title: Hanging Abdul; title: Dirtyville Rhapsodies.