The Half-Mammals of Dixie

Download or read book The Half-Mammals of Dixie written by George Singleton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second collection of short stories by a bright star in Southern fiction showcases a town so tiny it missed the map, the gleefully off-the-wall Southerners who refuse to be pigeonholed, and a South far removed from big-city Atlanta and proper Charleston. As the author says of his characters, "They're regular people just trying to get by." Among them: a boy whose reputation is ruined when he appears in a head-lice documentary; a lovelorn father who woos his third-grader's teacher with creative show-and-tells; and a former pharmaceuticals salesman who waits for the word of God to tell him what to paint on next the "primitive" canvases he sells for big bucks to an art dealer.