Why Dogs Chase Cars: Tales of a Beleaguered Boyhood

George Singleton

Why Dogs Chase Cars: Tales of a Beleaguered Boyhood
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Country
United States
Published
24 April 2013
Pages
352
ISBN
9781611172454

Why Dogs Chase Cars: Tales of a Beleaguered Boyhood

George Singleton

Accomplished South Carolina storyteller George Singleton has been called
the unchallenged king of the comic southern short story
by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
a breakthrough writer you need to know
by Book magazine, and
a big-hearted evil genius who writes as if he were the love child of Alice Munro and Strom Thurman
by novelist Tony Earley. Singleton’s third collection, Why Dogs Chase Cars, comprises fourteen uproarious short stories about Mendal Dawes, a young boy coming of age in the backwoods town of Forty-Five, South Carolina, and coming to terms with his eccentric but well-intentioned father. Singleton uses an earnest and consistently comic voice as he skilfully navigates themes of race, class, family, and Southern heritage. In his vision of the small-town South, where the
gene pool [is] so shallow that it wouldn’t take a Dr. Scholl’s insert to keep one’s sole dry,
cynicism ultimately gives way to empathy and an understanding of the empowering ties that always bind one to home and family.

This Southern Revivals edition includes a new introduction by Singleton himself, as well as a previously unpublished story,
Poetry,
and an expanded ending to
The Earth Rotates This Way,
the final piece in the collection.

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