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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A <i>New York Times </i>Notable Book of the Year <p/></b>In eleven raucous, touching stories, Tim Gautreaux's <i>Welding with Children</i> traces the course of sin and redemption through the lives of small-town women and men in Louisiana. His unforgettable characters include a grandfather who discovers, while taking care of his grandchildren, that they are growing up without any sense at all of right and wrong; a camera repairman who discovers a woman's secret in her undeveloped film; and a one-armed hitchhiker who changes the life of the man who picks her up. Each one a small miracle of storytelling and compassion, Tim Gautreaux's stories are a pleasure from start to finish. You want to hand [this book] to your friends and say 'read this' (<i>The Plain Dealer</i>).</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Both hilarious and honest . . . Gautreaux applies love and compassion, knowledge and ingenuity to create something superb." --<i>The Seattle Times</i> <p/>"Startling and redemptive . . . These stories suggest . . . that to be alive means being open to grief and accident, chance and wonder." --<i>The Chicago Tribune</i> <p/>"Move Garrison Keilor's Lake Wobegon stories to Louisiana, add heat and Tabasco, and the result would be<i> Welding With Children</i>." --<i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i> <p/>"Gautreaux has perfect pitch . . . it's his fiction's coarse incongruities--epitomized by the book's title--that prove the limitless possibilities of limited geography." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"Finely balanced, sweet and gritty." --<i>The San Francisco Chronicle</i> <p/>"A pleasure from start to finish." --<i>The Cleveland Plain-Dealer</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Tim Gautreaux</b> has written novels and collections of short stories, one of which, <i>Welding With Children</i>, was selected by <i>The</i> <i>New York Times </i>as a Notable Book of the Year. His fiction has appeared in <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i>, <i>Harper's, GQ, </i>and <i>Zoetrope</i>, and also in volumes of <i>The O. Henry Prize Stories</i>, <i>Best American Short Stories</i>, and <i>New Stories from the South</i>. He is a professor emeritus/writer in residence in the English Department at Southeastern Louisiana University.

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