ISBN 1-929490-07-0
Hardcover
224 pages
5 1/2 x 8 1/4"
$24.95
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The
Dry Well
S T O R I E S
by Marlin Barton
From a writer of enormous talent and style, this new
collection of twelve stories brings together the author’s best stories, all set
in the same small Southern community in Alabama. The world of these stories
covers five generations of one particular family named Anderson, and the range
in time is from 1865 to the present. Except for the first story, which is set in
the present but looks to the past, the stories begin in the past and move
forward chronologically to the present. These stories are about the operations
of supernatural grace in the lives of natural men and women. Such operations are
infinitely various, but so delicate that they have eluded some of the subtlest
writers.
Marlin Barton’s style is
unobtrusive—he writes so simply and powerfully that he seems scarcely to
be
exercising his craft. This is the perfect definition of a virtuoso, and readers
will find that there is virtuosity aplenty in The Dry Well.
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