[The] unchallenged king of the comic Southern short story. --The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
George Singleton writes about the rural South without sentimentality or
stereotype but with plenty of sharp-witted humor. . . . A raconteur of
trends, counter-trends, obsessions and odd characters.--NPR Morning
Edition
Thank God for George Singleton, who makes us laugh and makes us
think.--The Times-Picayune
There's a place just down the way where a trip to the salvage yard
reveals infidelity and theft. There's another where an unlicensed
entomologist celebrates his freedom with a compulsive liar while a
manhunt ensues on the streets outside. Places where a con man and his
nephew sell stolen parachutes to veterans in case the ground beneath
them should suddenly give way and where Chuck Norris's face graces only
the walls of the finest trailers. A place where tongues get left in
rental cars and a place where everyone insists an absolute stranger is
your boyhood friend.
Between Wrecks takes readers on a raucous bar crawl through an America
both startlingly familiar and hilariously absurd, examining paranoia,
fear, relentless "truths," longstanding personal habits gone awry, and
what it means to look toward a horizon that may or may not be a mirage.
George Singleton is the author of two novels and five short story
collections, including Stray Decorum. A 2013 SIBA Book Award finalist,
his work has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, and
Playboy. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he was awarded the Hillsdale
Award for Fiction by the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 2011. He
holds an MFA degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
and currently teaches writing at South Carolina Governor's School for
the Arts and Humanities. He lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
