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Ed Southern's stories are about hard work and hard times and what is required of a boy to become a man in such a place and time. They are also about class-that taboo subject in America-and about anger, love, and yearning. Carefully written, with the best dialogue I've read in years, these terrific and utterly original stories are made to last-like a stone pathway or a brick wall. - Lee Smith, author of On Agate Hill and The Last Girls Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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My only trip to North Carolina was more than thirty years ago when my wife and I traveled from Maryland down through Chapel Hill to Asheville, where we visited the home of Thomas Wolfe. Nevertheless, I was quickly drawn into every one of these Charlotte stories. If I had to pick a favorite, it would probably be "The Death of John Gardiner," with Will Adams bringing his frail, aged grandfather back to the nursing home where he resides, after a Christmas visit with his family. Will witnesses the indignities of old age - wheelchairs, adult diapers and scoldings from nurses' aides - as he reflects back on his grandfather's life - as a turret gunner with the Air Corps in WWII, and a long successful business career. And now he is a shriveled husk of the man he'd once been. This story nearly brought me to tears.
'Parlous' means dangerous, or perilous. I have to admit I'm not at all sure what Ed Southern meant by his title. But it caught my attention. It sounds like the South, and Ed Southern certainly knows the South of his childhood and beyond. He is a damn fine writer, and I thoroughly enjoyed these stories. My very highest recommendation.
- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER ( )