Uke Rivers Delivers

by R.T. Smith and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

In the best tradition of southern storytelling, Uke Rivers Delivers features raconteurs as beguiling as the tales they tell. These lyrical, darkly humorous monologues portray a range of denizens of the American South desperately trying to come to grips with their inherited pasts. A Confederate reenactor receives a message from the beyond to lay to rest the remains of Stonewall Jackson's horse. A docent at Washington and Lee University's Lee Chapel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807131873
• ISBN13: 9780807131879
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Uke River does Deliver

This is a wonderful, poetic short story collection. The writing is like lightening. Some of stories (Uke River Delivers & Bitterwolf) rank among the finest stories I've ever read. R.T. Smith's writing, though charged, controlled, and always rhythmic is sometimes hard to follow. But so is Laurence Durrell and James Joyce. And, I dare say, they couldn't write stories with such historical, emotional flair. I highly recommend this to anyone, especially those interested in intelligent, Southern literary fiction.