Baby, let's make a baby : plus ten more stories / by Kirk Curnutt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curnutt, Kirk, 1964-

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

263 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montgomery, Ala. : River City Pub., [2003]

Summary:

SynopsisStrangers' lives intersect on an Easter-eve interstate . . . A reluctant sniper receives an unexpected education in music . . . A husband withers under the weight of his wife's infidelity . . . The paterfamilias of a rural Brazilian city is shocked by the lengths he's willing to go to fight a tuberculosis outbreak . . . A former teen-pop princess watches in dismay as a documentary is culled from her life . . . Baby, Let's Make a Baby is a collection of twelve stories that mine a range of mood and emotion, from comic absurdity to the somber reflection. Whether set in the American South or in South America, in the war-ravaged cityscapes of Eastern Europe or along the eroding shores of the Great Lakes, these short fictions explore the dilemmas of complex and conflicted people trying to live with the things that they can't quite overcome.

Contents:

Overpass 11

Etude and Bell Tower 33

Fall of the House of Oxley 51

Sleeping Bear 73

Complicity 88

Baby, Let's Make a Baby 101

In a Baby Orchard 118

Down in the Flood 138

Call Her Iemanja, But Not in Church 150

All Apologies 190

The Story Behind the Story (Teenage Symphonies to God) 207.

ISBN:

1579660363

OCLC:

51726617