Love to the spirits / stories by Stephen March.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

March, Stephen, 1948-2014.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

United States.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

192 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montgomery, Ala. : River City Pub., 2004.

Summary:

The sixteen stories in Love to the Spirits are told from a remarkable variety of perspectives, exploring our society with humor, insight, and a touch of the absurd. The collection opens with a twelve-year-old girl and her grandfather hustling pool in West Texas and ends with two feuding brothers in a rickety airplane off North Carolina's Outer Banks, reunited to spread their mother's ashes. In between, a gravedigger is baffled by a body that mysteriously resurfaces after storms; a musician with a stolen mule seeks refuge in his estranged wife's backyard; and a dying con man sells his "service" to the residents of a nursing home-a promise to convey messages to their departed loved ones. Unifying these stories is a common theme: the characters' struggles to complete perilous passages in their lives, across a span of ice dangerously thin. They make their journeys with subtle, often comic, grace.

Contents:

Sharks

A good gravedigger

Love to the spirits

Tusks

Starlene's baby

The driver

Disappearances

Angles

Adrift

Silhouette

Prowlers

Mr. Spring

Specks of gold

Violets

Astronauts

Shipwrecks.

ISBN:

1579660576

OCLC:

55220323