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Why dogs chase cars : tales of a beleaguered boyhood / George Singleton.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.I5747 W47 2004b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Singleton, George, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities.
- Fathers and sons--Fiction.
- Fathers and sons.
- Boys--Fiction.
- Boys.
- South Carolina--Fiction.
- South Carolina.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Physical Description:
- 300 pages ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004.
- Summary:
- Eleven raucous stories, set in Singleton's fictional town of Forty-five, South Carolina, where everyone's dirty laundry is in plain sight
- Contents:
- Nearby toxic waste dumps
- Unemployment
- Embarrassment
- A wheelchair's too slow
- Segregation
- Asphalt's better than cinder
- In need of better hobbies
- No fear of God or Hell
- Mufflers
- Tired of old tricks
- Blue laws
- Even curs hate fruitcake
- Better fire hydrants, shorter trees, more holes to dig
- The earth rotates this way.
- Notes:
- "A Shannon Ravenel book."
- ISBN:
- 1565124049
- OCLC:
- 54960074
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