The Last Bizarre Tale: Stories by David Madden - Softcover

Madden, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1621900525 ISBN 13: 9781621900528

Verlag: University of Tennessee Press, 2014

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"For anyone wishing to rediscover or discover the work of David Madden--and that should include not only aspiring writers but all lovers of great literature--"The Last Bizarre Tale" is the perfect place to start . . . yet another step toward a wider public recognition that Madden is a master craftsman and an American storyteller of the first rank. I was nailed to the wall by the autobiographical 'James Agee Never Lived in This House.'" --Mark Powell, author of The Dark Corner

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Though he has authored more than eleven novels, including Cassandra Singing, The Suicide's Wife, Abducted by Circumstance, and the recent London Bridge in Plague and Fire, David Madden has been publishing short stories for all six decades of his active career. The Last Bizarre Tale consists of works that appeared in journals but that have not appeared together as a collection. Madden used two stories, "The Singer" and "Second Look Presents: the Rape of an Indian Brave," as chapters in his 1980 novel On the Big Wind. "The Headless Girl's Mother" was first published as a chapter in a serialized novel entitled Hair of the Dog. Two other stories developed out of longer versions of Madden's novels. "A Demon in My View" is part of a sequel, not yet published, to Bijou. All of the stories in David Madden's third collection are distinguished by variety of content and by shifting styles and often innovative techniques. They are to varying degrees and in various ways bizarre in their characters and their relationships, in the kinds of internal and external conflicts, and in locales and themes. The title story, The Last Bizarre Tale, involving a corpse that has hung on a hook in a funeral home garage for decades, is evocative of Poe and, in its dark, grotesque humor, Flannery O'Connor and Carson McCullers. "Process is as important as product to David Madden," writes editor James Perkins, "and one can learn as much about the process of writing as about the human condition by a careful reading of these stories."

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• Verlag: University of Tennessee Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1621900525
• ISBN 13: 9781621900528
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Herausgeber: Perkins James A.