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(More customer reviews)This collection of stories is a well orchestrated symphony of voices. Duff has always been a strong storyteller. He uses dialogue as a conductor punctuates a musical score to enliven a performance. These stories pulse with life. They are frequently haunted by the past, challenged by the present, and infused with the future. These stories must be told: they give us those cherished moments of practical insight, at times even wisdom, that teaches us what we often don't want to know about ourselves ... but what we often find endlessly fascinating in others. The folks in these stories sing with strength and labor with love. They also flaunt their flaws and that is what gives them life - messy as an overripe melon at times, but sweet tasting nonetheless. Read these stories and you will likely be stung, but you will not be hurt ... nor will a piece of you rot out. Instead, you will be left itching for more!
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Publishers Weekly hailed the "wit and subtlety" in Gerald Duff's fiction as "simply satisfying as a tall cold one on a hot Gulf Coast afternoon." The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette said "Gerald Duff's dialogue is among the best being written, and his sense of the absurd is Portis-like." This new collection of short stories features "Fire Ants, " which won the Cohen Award from Ploughshares for the best work of fiction published in the magazine in the year of its appearance. In addition to winning the Cohen Award, the title story was cited in Best American Short Stories and republished in The Editors' Choice: New American Stories.
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