These People Are Us - George Singleton
Short Fiction
ISBN: 1-880216-94-9
Hardcover
6 x 9
250 pp.
$23.95
Despite having no margins, this bestselling collection launched Singleton’s Guggenheim Award-winning career.
Go ahead, name a magazine or literary journal—George’s prose has probably graced it (what we love best, though, is his inclusion in Best Food Writing 2005).
His books include but are not necessarily limited to three other collections of stories, The Half-Mammals of Dixie, Why Dogs Chase Cars, and Drowning in Gruel; after for years claiming he would never write a novel, he has published two thus far: Novel and Work Shirts for Madmen.
He lives in Pickens County, South Carolina, with the clay artist Glenda Guion and their eleven dogs and one cat.
Big Love for George . . .George Singleton has the singular voice of a down-home schizophrenic. His stories are crazy, mad fun. —Playboy George Singleton is a big-hearted evil genius who writes as if he were the love child of Alice Munro and Strom Thurmond. —Tony Earley It’s as if Singleton grasped America by the Heels, held us upside down for a sound shaking, then collected the daffy oddments that fell out of the pockets. These People Are Us is funny and funky, trendy and counter-trendy, wild and accurate. —Fred Chappell George Singleton is the only writer I know who can make me, in a single moment, laugh out loud and weep. —Cathy Smith Bowers These characters try to get through the day as best they can. They muse and complain and fight with each other in a manner that brings Flannery O’Connor to mind. Singleton’s superb ear for dialogue makes this book a joy to read. —Scott Ely Here is a stunningly singular blend of humor and humanity. Tipped hats and hoisted fluted glasses to These People Are Us. —Dale Ray Phillips |