My People's Waltz - by Dale Ray Phillips (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>These award-winning stories introduce a heartbreaking and hilarious new voice in Southern American fiction.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>When I was thirty-five and freshly separated and still a stouthearted pilgrim to myself, I took a job on the Gulf Coast swindling people. I sold fake trailer lot deeds to investors with souls more crooked than my own. This is the voice of Richard, the winning and irrepressible narrator of this novel in stories. Here, we follow Richard's chaotic childhood informed by his parents' passionate and rocky marriage, his mother's nervous breakdowns, his traveling salesman father's erratic attempts to earn his mother's love again, and their eventual divorce, through Richard's own trials with the women in his life.<br /><br /> Richard is like a traveler or pilgrim, moving from Haw River, North Carolina, to Arkansas to the Texas Gulf Coast and finally back to North Carolina again, as he and his people -- they drink hard, dance in their kitchens, lie and cheat -- struggle with their love and wrestle with their often inharmonious natures. In the end the narrator struggles to straighten out some small piece of his heart's crooked essence. <em>My People's Waltz</em> sadly celebrates the decisions we make to get on with the business of living.<br /><br /><ul> <li>The stories in this collection have appeared in the <em>Atlantic</em>, <em>GQ</em>, <em>Ploughshares</em>, <em>Best American Short Stories</em>, and <em>New Stories from the South: The Year's Best</em>.</li> <br /> </li> <li>Here's what Dale Ray Phillips has said of his own work: Writing a story is a strange act of discovery; generally, I find that what I have uncovered is nothing more than what I have always known. Also -- and I'm embarrassed to admit this -- I love to lie, and fiction offers an acceptable channel for this compulsion.</li> </ul><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><QUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><REMARK>"As comprehensive and heartfelt a portrait of contemporary American fecklessness as you're likely to find."</REMARK><DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><BY>-- "New York Times Book Review </i></BY></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></QUOTE><QUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><REMARK>"Emotionally charged."</REMARK><DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><BY>-- "Kirkus Reviews</i></BY></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></QUOTE><QUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><REMARK>"A darkly funny and lyrical narrative... Phillips's prose flashes powerful unpredictability with every little shock."</REMARK><DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><BY>-- "Publisher's Weekly</i></BY></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></QUOTE><QUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><REMARK>"The stories in My People's Waltz are full of hard-won insights, chronicled in prose that at times approaches the incandescent. Simply put, Dale Ray Phillips knows how to write a sentence."</REMARK><DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><BY>-- "The Raleigh, NC News and Observer</i></BY></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></QUOTE><QUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><REMARK>"Phillips' stunning collection of stories is like a languid float down a Southern river."</REMARK><DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><BY>-- "Details</i></BY></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></QUOTE><QUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><REMARK>"[A] striking debut." </REMARK><DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><BY>-- "Elle</i></BY></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></QUOTE><QUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><REMARK>"The late, great Frank O'Connor wrote wisely of the lonely voice of the modern short story, and the lonely voices of Dale Ray Phillips' stories are nigh unto perfection."</REMARK><DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><BY>-- James Whitehead</BY></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></QUOTE><br>
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