Beluthahatchie and Other Stories - Hardcover

Duncan, Andy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0965590119 ISBN 13: 9780965590112

Publisher: Golden Gryphon Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Presents a collection of short stories, including "Beluthahatchie," which tells the story of a guitarist who refuses to disembark a train at Hell and his adventures at the next stop.

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Review:

Beluthahatchie and Other Stories is kind of an eyebrow-raising collection: the author had seen barely more than nine stories in print at publication time, and he's got a gorgeous hardcover collection from a respected publisher, containing nine of those stories plus two previously unpublished. Andy Duncan had better be great.

Well, he is. He's better than many decades-established veterans, with a keen ear for dialogue, a Southerner's love of storytelling, a gift for characterization, a fascination with obscure history and folklore, and a wonderfully weird mind. He presents an ethics-obsessed secret brotherhood of hangmen and a peripatetic electric-chair operator in "The Executioner's Guild." He brings a certain notorious Paris theater to life with strange romance and artistic envy in "Grand Guignol." "The Premature Burials" finds a gothic erotic charge in being buried alive. "Liza and the Crazy Water Man" shows as much affection for Southern ways and the now-obscure world of 1930s country music as the Coen Brothers' movie O, Brother, Where Art Thou?. --Cynthia Ward

About the Author:

Andy Duncan teaches English literature and writing at the University of Alabama. His writings have appeared in numerous science fiction magazines and anthologies. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

About this edition

• Publisher: Golden Gryphon Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0965590119
• ISBN 13: 9780965590112
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288