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A stunning collection of Southern short fiction by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Keepers of the House. A family hides its poverty behind a façade of gentility. A mysterious stranger sows discord in a backwoods hamlet. A man leaves prison only to be drawn back into the darkness of his past. A young bride faces the choice of informing on her husband and his family or enduring a lifetime of deceit. These nine stories by Pulitzer Prize winner Shirley Ann Grau traverse the landscape of the American South, from New Orleans to the Louisiana bayou to the pinewoods of Alabama, but their true territory is universal: the mysteries of the human heart. A dazzling portrait of the lovers and the criminals, the rich and the outcasts of the Deep South. This eBook features an illustrated biography of Shirley Ann Grau, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.
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"Miss Grau writes with a technical craftsmanship that is dazzling. Her stories are truly stories, narratives bout people involved in genuinely dramatic situations."
The New York Times
"Extraordinary . . . [Grau] is a storyteller in the old magical sense of the word. . . . She has the additional endowments of warmth, compassion, perception, and humor."
The New York Times Book Review
"A most remarkable book, in the best tradition of Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield."
Carl Van Vechten