Greg Downs 
Spit Baths [EPUB ebook] 
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With a reporter’s eye for the inside story and a historian’s grasp of the ironies in our collective past, Greg Downs affectionately observes some of the last survivors of what Greil Marcus has called the old, weird America. Living off the map and out of sight, folks like Embee, Rudy, Peg, and Branch define themselves by where they are, not by what they eat, drink, or wear.
The man who is soon to abandon his family in ‘Ain’t I a King, Too?’ is mistaken for the populist autocrat of Louisiana, Huey P. Long—on the day after Long’s assassination. In ‘Hope Chests, ‘ a history teacher marries his student and takes her away from a place she hated, only to find that neither one of them can fully leave it behind. An elderly man in ‘Snack Cakes’ enlists his grandson to help distribute his belongings among his many ex-wives, living and dead. In the title story, another intergenerational family tale, a young boy is caught in a feud between his mother and grandmother. The older woman uses the language of baseball to convey her view of religion and nobility to her grandson before the boy’s mother takes him away, maybe forever.
Caught up in pasts both personal and epic, Downs’s characters struggle to maintain their peculiar, grounded manners in an increasingly detached world.

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GREG DOWNS has been the least successful high school varsity basketball coach in Tennessee, the editor of a muckraking weekly newspaper on Chicago’s South Side, a karaoke performer profiled in the Boston Phoenix, and a reporter on the tail of a fugitive cult leader. A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is an assistant professor of history at the City College of New York. Downs’s stories have appeared in such publications as Glimmer Train, Meridian, Chicago Reader, and Sycamore Review.

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Taal Engels ● Formaat EPUB ● Pagina’s 192 ● ISBN 9780820342931 ● Bestandsgrootte 1.9 MB ● Uitgeverij University of Georgia Press ● Stad Athens ● Land US ● Gepubliceerd 2011 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 5513572 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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