Death by Clogging and Other Stories

Lisa Morgan;Lisa P. Morgan;NC literature;North Carolina short fiction;NC short stories;short story;North Carolina writer;North Carolina fiction;short shorts;short fiction;short stories;southern fiction;Southern short stories

Morgan, Lisa Paige ; Tom Lisk, Committee Co-Chair,John Kessel, Committee Co-Chair,Jill McCorkle, Committee Chair,Morgan, Lisa Paige ; Tom Lisk ; Committee Co-Chair ; John Kessel ; Committee Co-Chair ; Jill McCorkle ; Committee Chair

University:North Carolina State University

关键词: Lisa Morgan;    Lisa P. Morgan;    NC literature;    North Carolina short fiction;    NC short stories;    short story;    North Carolina writer;    North Carolina fiction;    short shorts;    short fiction;    short stories;    southern fiction;    Southern short stories;   

Others  :  https://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/bitstream/handle/1840.16/2466/etd.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

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【 摘 要 】

This is a collection of Southern alcoholic first ladies, criminal mothers, self-destructive cloggers, disgruntled nuns, self-absorbed businessmen, cross-dressing Vietnam veterans, militant breast feeders, jealous husbands, insomniacs...basically the people we meet in our everyday lives just with a bit of exaggeration Southern-style.The protagonists of this collection of stories are — an alcoholic mayor's wife exhausted from the phoniness of living in the public eye in small-town America; a mother who makes a difficult and criminal decision to keep her son out of foster care; a young boy sent to live with relatives—one of them a cross-dressing war hero; a blind girl with her eyes set on a dream wedding fit for a princess; a man with an extreme case of insomnia and jealousy; a nun and a business man who makes the mistake of "going Dutch treat"; a self-destructive clogger who learns the dangers of living out the dreams of others; and a soldier burdened by his cowardice.