George Singleton, Author . Algonquin/Ravenel $22.95 (287p) ISBN 978-1-56512-354-0
Singleton expands upon the peculiar conceits of his debut collection, These People Are Us, in these 15 offbeat stories. Set mostly around the little South Carolina backwater of Forty-Five, they take on everything from racism to alcoholism to head...
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George Singleton, Author . Algonquin/Shannon Ravenel $14.95 (300p) ISBN 978-1-56512-404-2
A precocious Southern boy tries to come to terms with his father's odd legacy in this first novel by short-story writer Singleton (The Half-Mammals of Dixie;
etc.), a quirky coming-of-age yarn set in the tiny town of Forty-Five, S.C., in the...
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George Singleton, Author . Harvest $14 (307p) ISBN 978-0-15-603061-8
Singleton returns to the small South Carolina town where he set his acclaimed first novel, Novel
, for this delightfully obsessive collection of stories, which reads like a group celebration of the excess and eccentricities found in the tiny...
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George Singleton, Author . Harcourt $24 (317p) ISBN 978-0-15-101307-4
The latest from Singleton (Drowning in Gruel
) is an engagingly comic but finally underpowered study of Harp Spillman, a once busy avant-garde artist whose metal sculptures dot the cityscapes of the American South. Harp’s heavy drinking has...
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George Singleton, Author Christian Voice Publishing $23.95 (232p) ISBN 978-1-880216-94-1
A bouncer videotapes an episode of Bonanza over his wife's sonogram and scrambles to find a replacement, an ex-poet takes a job driving a van that provides mammograms, and an office-supply salesman falls for a woman from an all-girl wrestling revue...
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George Singleton. Dzanc (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-938103-16-2
Rich characterization is the highlight of this vivid collection of 15 short stories about life in a small South Carolina town. Singleton's stirring examination of the unusual Calloustown residents is filled with fresh, surprising, and striking...
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George Singleton. Hub City, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-1-938235-69-6
Singleton (Calloustown) brings together his best work along with one new story in this smashing collection that combines satire, tragicomic premises, and small-town South Carolina locales. Items as innocuous as caulk or a VHS tape become the focus...
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George Singleton. Dzanc, $17.95 trade paper (250p) ISBN 978-1-950539-86-4
Singleton (Between Wrecks) delivers an offbeat collection filled with Southern eccentrics. Doug, the narrator of “Cock Rescue,” doesn’t much like his sister-in-law, Frankie, a “pre-literary agent,” who hustles writers by sending their manuscripts to
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