Same Place, Same Things - Hardcover

Gautreaux, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312147279 ISBN 13: 9780312147273

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1996

Synopsis

In his stunning debut collection, Tim Gautreaux chronicles the lives of "ordinary" people - a farmer on his porch, a woman fixing her tractor, a train engineer passing through a small town - who face extraordinary circumstances or decisions. The farmer has just learned he must raise his infant granddaughter; the woman is about to watch a helicopter land in her back field; the train engineer will cause a colossal disaster. Most of these stories are set in Louisiana, and some incorporate the customs and cadences of modern Cajun life. Many are about work and how people do their jobs, from radio announcers to pump repairmen, from bug exterminators to tugboat crews.
These are stories about real people, stories filled with heart and humor, event and consequence. With an unerring eye for detail and a pitch-perfect ear for language, Tim Gautreaux brings his characters to life in twelve perfectly crafted, beautifully told tales of love, redemption, and second chances. Same Place, Same Things resonates with the hope and possibility of everyday life.

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Review:

Louisiana is a state like no other. Why is it so strange? Mostly because of the people who live there, some of whom constitute the characters in this quirky collection of short stories, the first collection by Tim Gautreaux. There's a cold-feeling grandfather who is forced to raise his infant grandchild after his own child dies and who knows little more than to offer shotgun shells as toys; a pump repairman during the Great Depression who runs from the death of a farmer and his pursuing wife; and a drunken train engineer who crashes with a cargo of chemicals and becomes a fugitive.

About the Author:

Tim Gautreaux was recently chosen as the John and Renee Grisham Southern Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. He has taught creative writing for many years at Southeastern Louisiana University.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0312147279
• ISBN 13: 9780312147273
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 211