Some kinds of love : stories / Steve Yates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yates, Steve B., 1968-

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance fiction.

Genre:

Short stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

vii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.

Summary:

Sometimes the opposite of love is not hate, but depravity. In these twelve stories set in the Missouri Ozarks, New Orleans, and Mississippi, Steve Yates reveals lovers clawing back from precipices of destructiveness, obsessiveness, cruelty, vanity, or greed. They seek escape and yet find new barriers, realizing true love may not be at all what they imagined. Pioneers, limestone quarry owners, young German American Civil War survivors, bankers, sex toy catalog designers, highway engineers, Pakistani terrorists, attorneys, missile guidance masterminds, and furniture factory workers (who can see the future) populate these pieces. From the Ozarks of the 1830s, when locals perceive doomsday in a historic starfall, to the near future at an all-night slow-pitch softball tournament when Armageddon looms yet again, these stories chart the dark side of love, the ties that bind families, and the sweet complications of human desire.

Contents:

Starfall

Pleasures of the neighborhood

Homecoming

New father

Hunter, seeker

The fencing lady

Forgery

The green tomato Marquesa's night of a thousand and one triumphs

Tuesdays at the center for excellence

Report on performance art in one province of the empire, especially in regard to three exhibitions involving swine

Coin of the realm

Mila joins the game.

ISBN:

9781625340276

1625340273

9781625340283

1625340281

OCLC:

823041555