The gentle insurrection and other stories
By: Doris Betts.
Edition: LSU Press ed.
Series: Voices of the South
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Description: The stories in this first collection are concerned with some of the most private and complicated issues: living and dying, growing old, questioning one's beliefs, and recognizing one's own failings.

Whether it be an elderly man struggling to come to terms with an incident in his past before the last light falls; a mill worker attempting to bring some color and distinction to his shabby yard and to his existence; or a meddling spinster who is forced to acknowledge the dance of resentment and need conducted between the races, in each of these stories a "gentle insurrection" occurs that changes lives, however subtly, forever.