Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The author of Eelgrass and The Kentucky Stories now offers a collection of mysterious and beautiful (Lee Smith) stories, as subtle, syntactically graceful, and beautiful as any I've seen (Toby Olson).
-- "Publishers Weekly"
Synopsis
The author of Eelgrass and The Kentucky Stories offers a new collection of mysterious and beautiful (Lee Smith) stories, as subtle, syntactically graceful, and beautiful as any I've seen (Toby Olson). The stories in Lithuania are set in such diverse places as Tunisia, Quebec, and Baltimore and conjures up quirky, gritty characters and surrounds them with evocative swatches of local color (Publisher's Weekly).
Table of Contents
Aerial view -- Roof work -- Basse ville -- Saint Silváere's head -- Attention shoppers -- For nineteen sixty-eight -- Duckwalking -- West Baltimore -- Retrieval -- Playing for keeps -- Hillcrest days.