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From the author of These People Are Us comes a zany new collection of short stories that captures the entertaining lives of such characters as the boy whose reputation is ruined forever after he stars in a documentary on diagnosing head lice, a self-described primitive artist who is mistaken for a faith healer, and a lovelorn father who woos his child's third-grade teacher. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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This second collection of short stories by a bright star in Southern fiction showcases a town so tiny it missed the map, the gleefully off-the-wall Southerners who refuse to be pigeonholed, and a South far removed from big-city Atlanta and proper Charleston. As the author says of his characters, "They're regular people just trying to get by." Among them: a boy whose reputation is ruined when he appears in a head-lice documentary; a lovelorn father who woos his third-grader's teacher with creative show-and-tells; and a former pharmaceuticals salesman who waits for the word of God to tell him what to paint on next the "primitive" canvases he sells for big bucks to an art dealer.
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