Lithuania: Short Stories by Joe Ashby Porter
The author of Eelgrass and The Kentucky Stories now offers a collection of mysterious and beautiful (Lee Smith) stories, as subtle, syntactically graceful, and beautiful as any I've seen (Toby Olson).
Lithuania
Lithuania
Summary
The author of Eelgrassand The Kentucky Storiesnow offers a collection of mysterious and beautiful(Lee Smith) stories, as subtle, syntactically graceful, and beautiful as any I've seen(Toby Olson).
Lithuania Summary
Lithuania Reviews
In stories set in such diverse places as Tunisia, Quebec and Baltimore, Porter ( The Kentucky Stories ) conjures up quirky, gritty characters and surrounds them with evocative swatches of local color. The stories meander along, with no startling plot developments but with a delightfully wry realism. In Basse Ville, a crusty old Canadian coot who fancies himself a painter searches for Sinbad, his missing parrot, and reflects on life, death and his wife (What the hell, wonders of the universe probably only matter to you if you're about to kick off, so maybe it's all to the good for your wife not to bat an eye at them). West Baltimore is the story of fat, semi-toothless Margaret, with her childhood memories, her present-day gossip and her fears that she will be evicted from her apartment as the neighborhood gentrifies. The only weak link in this excellent collection is Attention, Shoppers, an overly arch riff on consumerism in the far future. But even this piece has its droll moments (When I first slid my toots into those beauts Big Bird shoes and slid across the permaseal I felt more serene than Goethe ice-skating in the old picture) Publishers Weekly
About Joe Ashby Porter
Joe Ashby Porter is the author of Eelgrass and The Kentucky Stories. Porter is associate professor of English at Duke University and has served as visiting fiction writer at Brown University. His works on Renaissance literature, published under the name Joseph A. Porter, include Shakespeare's Mercutio: His History and Drama.
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NLS9780801840920
9780801840920
0801840929
Lithuania: Short Stories by Joe Ashby Porter
New
Paperback
Johns Hopkins University Press
1990-11-26
160
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