Description
| Product ID: | 9780340834558 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Waiting for the Evening News: Stories of the Deep South |
| Authors: | Author: Tim Gautreaux |
| Page Count: | 400 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating By the acclaimed author of THE MISSING and THE CLEARING, 23 scintillating tales of small kindnesses, big decisions and secret lives. A petty thief is bested by a widow and her card-playing friends; a farmer must cope with raising his baby granddaughter; a train engineer inadvertently causes a major disaster and finds himself amidst a media frenzy; a young man falls in love with a voice on the radio; and a camera repairman discovers a woman''s family history in a roll of undeveloped film. Ordinary people are confronted with extraordinary situations, with results that are sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, but always life changing. |
| Imprint Name: | Sceptre |
| Publisher Name: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-03-18 |
