Three sons send their father to Valhalla in his old jalopy. A rusted robot waits on the stone wall by a child's bus stop. An undertaker is one coin short at the river Styx. In the fourteen yarns spun in this collection, E. Christopher Clark weaves the fabulous with the mundane, leading us through th
Out of the Woods: Stories
β Scribed by Chris Offutt
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 56 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1439129304
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Out of the woods -- Melungeons -- Moscow, Idaho -- Two-eleven all around -- High water everywhere -- Barred owl -- Target practice -- Tough people.;Stories about working-class people. In Two-Eleven All Around, a man is locked out for the night by his wife, while in Tough People, a woman enters a boxing contest to raise money for her man.
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