Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
And Other Stories
Format: Book
Edition: First Harvest edition 1993.
Description: x, 334 pages ; 21 cm.
"Nothing short of a wonder-book."-- New York Times Book Review
This remarkable collection of twelve short stories is about the diverse folk--black and white, young and old, rich and poor, rural and sophisticated--who live in the eastern North Carolina town of Tims Creek. Among the memorable characters are Clarence Pickett, who at age three began receiving messages from beyond the grave and whose gift seems tied to a hog's ability to talk; matronly Ida Perry, haunted by a boy her judge husband may have drowned years before; Dean Williams, hired to seduce the richest black man in Times Creek, yearning after innocence while he betrays love.
This remarkable collection of twelve short stories is about the diverse folk--black and white, young and old, rich and poor, rural and sophisticated--who live in the eastern North Carolina town of Tims Creek. Among the memorable characters are Clarence Pickett, who at age three began receiving messages from beyond the grave and whose gift seems tied to a hog's ability to talk; matronly Ida Perry, haunted by a boy her judge husband may have drowned years before; Dean Williams, hired to seduce the richest black man in Times Creek, yearning after innocence while he betrays love.
Series: Harvest American writing.
Contents:
Clarence and the dead -- Things of this world; or Angels unawares -- The foundations of the earth -- The origin of whales -- Cornsilk -- The strange and tragic ballad of Mabel Pearsall -- This far; or A body in motion -- Run, mourner, run -- What are days? -- Ragnarök! The day the gods die -- Tell me, tell me -- Let the dead bury their dead.
ISBN:
0156505150
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| Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
| F Kenan | Main (Downtown) | Fiction | Out (Due: 5/27/2022) |
"A Harvest Book."
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.
Lambda Literary Award, 1992
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.
Lambda Literary Award, 1992
