Good as any : stories / Timothy A. Westmoreland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westmoreland, Timothy A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

United States.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

275 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt, 2002.

Summary:

From a new voice in American fiction come tales of men whose language is grief, whose off-center lives expose the difficulty of being whole in a world they cannot understand.Set in the spare, unforgiving landscapes of rural New England and rural Texas, Timothy Westmoreland's stories explore the reality of life among the ill and the dying, the disadvantaged and those unfit for life except in the margins. They examine the individual moment, those times when people create fiction in their lives just to survive, soothing the ache that permeates their being. Dark and funny, these stories tell wrenching truths about being men and being whole. Reminiscent of the work of Russell Banks, they announce a major new writer of immense talent. 6 X 9.

Contents:

Near to gone

They have numbered all my bones

Something else

Good as any

Strong at the broken places

Buried boy

Darkening of the world

Blood knot

Winter Island.

ISBN:

0151008523

OCLC:

46936322