Empty Bed Blues.Empty Bed Blues George Garrett For the American poet, see . George William Littler Garrett (4 July 1852 – 26 February 1902) was a British clergyman and inventor who pioneered submarine design. He was born at Moss Side in Manchester, England, the son of an Irish-born Church of England curate. University of Missouri Press The University of Missouri Press, founded in 1958, is a university press that is part of the University of Missouri System. External link
2910 LeMone Blvd, Columbia, MO 65201 www.umsystem.edu/upress 0826216307 $19.95 1-800-828-1894 Empty Bed Blues is an anthology of fifteen stories by award-winning author George Garrett, each unique, yet many mixing fact with fiction, memoir with adventure, comedy and tragedy. Nearly all stories are prose, though "A Short History of the Civil War" is in the form of a series of poems by two participants, a Confederate and a Yankee. Other tales include "Pornographers", a gritty tale about a sleazy slea·zy adj. slea·zi·er, slea·zi·est 1. a. Shabby, dirty, and vulgar; tawdry: "sleazy storefronts with torn industrial carpeting and dirt on the walls" reporter searching for the ultimate crime story, and "A Story Goes with It", the tale of a much-beloved friend now gone, as remembered through retelling re·tell·ing n. A new account or an adaptation of a story: a retelling of a Roman myth. a favorite yarn. From dark and brutal to wistful and contemplative, the stories run the gamut of diversity, yet each demands to be read to the end and fully and absorbed. Highly recommended. |
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