Full name: Town Smokes: Stories

Author: Pinckney Benedict Year: 1987 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780749395568 9780865380585 0749395567 0865380589

A collection of nine short stories set in the American South, depicted as odd and idiosyncratic. Emerging from the harsh realities of difficult lives, the stories are full of the violence of love and the love of violence. The author won the 1995 Steinbeck Award for "Dogs of God". Similar books: The Age of Miracles by Ellen Gilchrist At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom by Amy Hempel Here We Are in Paradise by Tony Earley Charity by Mark Richard Where You'll Find Me by Ann Beattie Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting With My Daddy by Ellen Gilchrist The Half-Mammals of Dixie by George Singleton Aliens of Affection by Padgett Powell Things that Fall from the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier These People Are Us by George Singleton Last Night by James Salter Varieties of Disturbance by Lydia Davis I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down by William Gay Gates of Eden by Ethan Coen The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau