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Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks

Stories from the New South

Greg Bottoms

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Counterpoint
16 March 2007
Provocatively blurring the lines between autobiography, short fiction, and essay, Greg Bottoms presents a series of fifteen honest and beautifully spare tales of class, poverty, violence, and racism set in the margins of the urban and suburban New South.

An ode to Pulitzer-nominee Breece D'J Pancake's life and untimely death, the title story deftly interweaves Bottoms's personal history to insightful result. In the transformative ""The Metaphor,"" the narrator proclaims, ""when the world looks like every little promise has been lanced and bled out, you need a story to tell yourself."" So we move seamlessly between the lives of people both real and imagined and the life of the author, and what emerges is not only a composite of sharply drawn and revealing moments, but also a book-length meditation on the nature of, and necessity for, storytelling itself. Including three new stories - ""Sam at the Gun Show,"" ""Strangers and Dreams,"" and ""Heroism #2"" - this revised edition announces an understated, arresting new voice in literature.
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Imprint:   Counterpoint
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 222mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 11mm
Weight:   213g
ISBN:   9781593761301
ISBN 10:   1593761309
Pages:   176
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

An essayist, memoirist, critic, and story writer, Greg Bottoms is the author of The Colorful Apocalypse, Fight Scenes, and more. He teaches creative writing at the University of Vermont.

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