Strangers and Sojourners: Stories from the Lowcountry

by Mary Potter Engel

Book Overview

For readers of Allan Gurganus and John Kennedy Toole, stories set in a small Southern town where a young Jewish doctor tries to bring compassion and science to a cast of misfits, loners, and eccentrics.

A one-hundred-and-fourteen-year-old woman living alone, a deaf recluse, a Jewish alligator hunter and his New York wife, a gay African-American drummer, a woman accused of poisoning her husband, a homeless, transgendered person, a woman...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582432643
• ISBN13: 9781582432649
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.2"