Sentimental, heartbroken rednecks
Subtitle: stories
By: Greg Bottoms.
Publisher: Context Books; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Like Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Joyce's Dubliners, or Isherwood's Berlin Stories, these stories about loss and redemption possess an evocative sense of place and society as they are transformed by the author's nervous relationship with the world.

In the title story, the narrator imagines his way into the dark, elusive world of southern writer Breece D'J Pancake; "Imaginary Birds" flawlessly renders the reverie of a senile old woman to make the world anew; in stories such as "Nostalgia for Ghosts," "The Metaphor," "Intersections," and "A Seat for the Coming Savior," the quiet desperation of urban places gives way to moments of beauty, profundity, even holiness, in the midst of devastation and heartbreak."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Nostalgia for ghosts; title: The metaphor; title: Secret history of home cinema; title: 1967; title: A seat for the coming savior; title: Sentimental, heartbroken rednecks; title: A stupid story; title: LSD in Raleigh; title: Gray world; title: Imaginary birds; title: Intersections; title: Levi's tongue; title: Heroism.