Isolation, and Other Stories - Hardcover

Greer, Robert O.

 
9781888570472: Isolation, and Other Stories
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1888570474 ISBN 13: 9781888570472
Publisher: Davies & Assocs, 2001

Synopsis

Fiction: short story collection.

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About the Author

Robert Greer, author of the CJ Floyd mystery series (The Devil's Hatband, The Devil's Red Nickel, The Devil's Backbone), and Limited Time (a medical thriller), lives in Denver, where he is a practicing surgical pathologist, research scientist, and Professor of Pathology and Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He also edits the High Plains Literary Review, reviews books for National Public Radio, and raises Black Baldy cattle on his ranch near Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He is currently at work on his fifth novel, Heat Shock, a new medical suspense thriller.

From the Back Cover

"The stories are firmly grounded. What people do and what they say...matters. Greer's fiction feels authentic. You trust it." --Darrell Spencer, author of Caution, Men in Trees

"Robert Greer expands his horizon. Greer's novels are brilliant...This book will surely earn [him] many new readers." --Clarence Major, author of All-Night Visitors

"A collection of beautifully written stories, each more lyrical and haunting than the last. Robert Greer is truly a magician..." --Margaret Coel, author of The Spirit Woman

"The characters in Greer's fine new collection well-up from the earth like the narrators' rich voices. We know these people." --G.W. Hawkes, author of A Gambler's Rose

"Here's a part of what Bob Greer knows: the frontiers are within us now, and they are ragged, desperate places." --James Sallis, author of Chester Himes: A Life

From the Inside Flap

"...perfectly focused portraits...You never feel as though you're reading; the experience is of eavesdropping on moments of unsullied authenticity." --Marianne Wesson, author of A Suggestion of Death

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

From "The Ride" -- The DeSoto was a junker - a candidate for cinder blocks. It appeared at Raymond's Garage on one of those sultry, east Texas dog-days of August 1962. The next day Monroe was washing it in one of the repair bays and referring to it as his Ride. A week passed before I realized that it didn't have an engine. When Monroe caught me peeking under the hood, he nearly took my head off.

"What you lookin' for, Darryl? You lose a motor?"

"No, Monroe. Just checkin' out your Ride."

"Well, check from outside on the service island. You're here to pump gas, not mechanic. Why Raymond hires you college boys for the summer beats hell outta me. Shit, don't one'a you know fat meat's greasy. You spend all summer learnin' to break down a tire and do a oil change, then it's September and you split. Just throwin' money away if you ask me. But it ain't my garage. Ain't Raymond's neither. The Man owns this place, like everything else. Raymond's just rentin'. What you still standin' there for, Darryl? Get your ass in gear and hit that ramp. You got three cars waitin'."

I glanced back at the motorless DeSoto. Monroe slammed down the hood, gave me one of his 'don't-screw-with-it-again' looks and disappeared into the garage...

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Publisher
Davies & Assocs
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1888570474
ISBN 13 
9781888570472
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
195

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