The Half-Mammals of Dixie

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.

Contents

Show-and-Tell
Fossils
This Itches, Y'all
When Children Count
How to Collect Fishing Lures
Answers
Public Relations
Bank of America
Deer Gone
Duke Power
Impurities
The Half-Mammals of Dixie
What Slide Rules Can't Measure
Page-a-Day
Richard Petty Accepts National BookAward