Welding with Children: Stories
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (877 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312428790 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Dancing with the one-armed gall, saved the best for last." according to jpandrew. This was a thought-provoking look into family and people on need, written in an authentic sounding tone, and painting a world that was not hard to picture with our mind's eyes. The last story was my favorite, but they were all special and fun to read.. Edward Meade said A Peek Inside America. If you get off the interstate and on to the old highways, you can see them. They're the people who live between the suburbs of one great city and the suburbs of the next. Tim Gautreaux invites us to get out of our cars and into the grey-wood houses with a bentwood rocker on the front porch and an Oldsmobile engine hanging from the pecan tree in the side yard. He gives us a sad, funny, sympathetic and ultimately hopeful introd. Darrelyn Saloom said Welding with Children is "Good For The Soul.". I love every story in this book. I did not want the story "Welding with Children" to end. I wish Gautreaux would make it a novel. My favorite story is "Good For The Soul" which is hilarious. You cannot live in Southern Louisiana and not know Father Ledet. I pray Tim Gautreaux lives to be a very old man and writes for the rest of his days. I am buying every person I love this book for Christmas.
--Mary Park. The bull, after all, is no more or less than their fates, "like a judge saying something and you can't stop it or change it." Gracefully written and spiced with vivid regional detail, these are tales by a master storyteller who's not afraid to blend some darkness into his fictional roux. Fair enough. In Tim Gautreaux's pitch-perfect portraits of rural Louisiana life, there is no force stronger than a good Cajun-style chicken stew--except, perhaps, the vagaries of old age. An opportunistic con man poses as his son, then puts the kidnapped "Ted Williams" to work digging a ditch in the sun. Welding with Children has more than its fair share of the latter, beginning with the funny and moving title story, in which a grandfather drives around the four offspring of his four single daughters using what neighbors unkindly call "the bastardmobile.
You want to hand this book to your friends and say 'read this' " (The Plain Dealer).. A New York Times Notable Book of the YearIn eleven raucous, touching stories, Tim Gautreaux traces the course of sin and redemption through the lives of small-town women and men in Louisiana. Each one a small miracle of storytelling and compassion, Tim Gautreaux's stories are "a pleasure from start to finish. His unforgettable characters include a grandfather who discovers, while ctaking 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