The Big Bust at Tyrone's Rooming House: A Novel of Atlanta - Softcover

Gallant, James

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9781930180093: The Big Bust at Tyrone's Rooming House: A Novel of Atlanta

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ISBN 10: 1930180098 ISBN 13: 9781930180093

Publisher: Glad Day, 2003

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James Gallant's novel describes a situation common in older American inner-city neighborhoods of our time: the clash of incoming, house-restoring middle class people disenchanted with difficult commutes and suburban anomie; and poor--sometimes criminal--populations long entrenched in these neighborhoods. Beneath Gallant's humor is a serious concern with ambiguities in race, class relationships, and law enforcement, demonstrated in wonderfully specific tales and anecdotes.
Serious comedy is the hardest way to tell the truth. Gallant makes it easy to read.
--Mary Hood, author of Venus is Blue
James Gallant writes with humor, sympathy, and candor about what really happens in the American urban limbo of big and small-time swindlers chasing a dream. From con-artistry to lonely old ladies, conniving pimps, and chartreuse houses, Gallant's Atlanta is a complex and charming place worthy the legendary status it achieves through his magically affirmative writing.
Maxine Chernoff, author of Some of Her Friends That Year, and Selected Stories

About the Author:

James Gallant, originally from Ohio, is a thirty-plus yearresident of Atlanta. Fortnightly Review (UK) is currently hosting JamesGallant's column "Verisimilitude: essays and approximations" (fortnightlyreview.co.uk/category/verisimilitudes/).His second novel, Whatever Happened toOhio? has just been published by Vagabondage Press in its "BatteredSuitcase" series. Grace Paley's Glad DayBooks published his first novel, The BigBust at Tyrone's Rooming House: a Novel of Atlanta. His fiction and essayshave appeared in many magazines, including The Georgia Review, Epoch, Massachusetts Review, StoryQuarterly, Mississippi Review, Exquisite Corpse, North American Review,Raritan, Witness, and The Chattahoochee Review, among other magazines. Hiswebsite is: jamesgallantwriter.com

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