Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair by Lewis Nordan [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1989 • Vintage Contemporaries

Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair by Lewis Nordan

TRADE PAPERBACK RE-ISSUE [1989] VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES

1st Vintage Contemporaries printing / 1989.

Book is in excellent condition.  Light shelf wear to cover and some inevitable tanning to pages.   Reads flawlessly. 

The Southern grotesque tradition-the tradition of Faulkner, O'Connor, Ellen Gilchrist, and Harry Crews-is alive and flourishing like kudzu in this new collection of short stories by the author of THE ALL-GIRL FOOTBALL TEAM.

In the world of WELCOME TO THE ARROW-CATCHER FAIR, men and women long for simplicity and calm while the ground beneath them keeps tilting in a continuous moral earthquake. It's a world where bubonic plague may be a threat to home and happiness, the next-door neighbors may turn out to be a family of midget construction date one evening may wear a glass eye on a workers, and chain around her neck. Swerving unpredictably from horror to unfettered comedy, these nine stories are nothing less than intoxicating. Lewis Nordan is one of those rare writers whose grasp of the ordinary is combined with an infectious enthusiasm for the odd.