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Fourteen darkly comic and artfully crafted Deep South tales in the spirit of O'Connor'Mister, most stories about people are sad. The ones about animals sometimes turn out all right, but not them about people,'muses a character in master storyteller Paul Ruffin's yarn of obsession and quest'In Search of the Tightrope Walker.'Raging against this fated sadness—and often against a deadening and inescapable status quo—the characters in Ruffin's newest collection, Jesus in the Mist, populate an imaginative vision of the hardscrabble Deep South where history, culture, and expectations are set firmly against them. Like Flannery O'Connor before him, Ruffin views the South as dark with humor and rife with violence. He writes of places and times where religion, race, class, sex, abuse, poverty, mythology, and morbidity coalesce to expose humanity at its basest and its most redeeming. Peppered with the vivid dialogue, colorful descriptions, and idiosyncratic comedy that define Ruffin's work, this volume is divided into two sections: the first group of stories addresses complexities of relationships between men and women, and the second recounts episodes of initiation in which characters grappl

Author

Paul Ruffin

Publisher

Columbia: University of South Carolina Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611171204

Subjects

Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Fiction