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Long Time Ago Good
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9780990863281
Publisher: Buffalo Times Press
Published: Feb 10 2016
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This story collection--a finalist for the annual first fiction award presented by the Texas Institute of Letters--explores Austin, Texas, a city famous for music, football, and drunken fun frolics-- and famous too for traffic jams, anomie, and dislocation. In Long Time Ago Good, Lowell Mick White imaginatively recreates this city, this region. Here is a folksy reporter covering a chitlins cook-off, a ragged cab driver fighting for his life, a lonely jewelrymaker focusing too much on the past--a high tech worker losing her job, a bureaucrat looking for something more. These stories are populated by depressed men, angry women, frustrated dogs, and fearful cats--filled with heat waves and heartbreaks, thunderstorms and belly-laughs: with all that is modern Texas-- and America....
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