Tim Gautreaux

• Jan-2017
• / General Fiction
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A widely celebrated novelist gives us a generous collection of exhilarating short stories, proving that he is a master of this genre as well. Once again, "he reminds us," wrote The Miami Herald, "that great writing is a timeless art." After the st...

• May-2016
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Original Selection   These kinds of calls come with the territory. One evening, when the temperature in Minnesota drops way below zero and the winds howl, the furnace man Mel Todd gets asked out to see ab...

• Jul-2010
• / General Fiction
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A petty thief is bested by a widow and her card-playing friends; a farmer must cope with raising his baby granddaughter; a train engineer inadvertently causes a major disaster and finds himself amidst a media frenzy; a young man falls in love with a ...

• Mar-2009
• / Literary
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Sam Simoneaux's troopship docked in France just as World War I came to an end. Still, what he saw of the devastation there sent him back to New Orleans eager for a normal life and a job as a floorwalker in the city's biggest department store, and to ...

• Jun-2003
• / General Fiction
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In his critically acclaimed new novel, Tim Gautreaux fashions a classic and unforgettable tale of two brothers struggling in a hostile world.In a lumber camp in the Louisiana cypress forest, a world of mud and stifling heat where men labor under back...

• Oct-1999
• / General Fiction
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A master storyteller's triumphant, moving short fiction collection about lost souls, found love, and rediscovered tradition."Gautreaux's offbeat characters and infectious storyteller's tone put you in mind of Eudora Welty in a John Deere cap, or mayb...

• Mar-1998
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"A mighty first novel, told with cinematic grip . . . Gautreaux himself takes the next step in the moody, sweet dance of southern literature." -- GQ Bringing the same light and gentle understanding that he did to the story collecti...

• Sep-1996
• / General Fiction
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"As good as stories get . . . Imbued with the rich roux of family, place, race, and religion that is the base of all good southern fiction." -- Times-PicayuneIn this collection of stories, Tim Gautreaux chronicles the lives of "ordinary" people who ...