Tim Gautreaux
1) The missing
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After the devastation in France just as World War I, Sam Simoneaux went back to New Orleans eager for a normal life. But when a little girl disappears from a department store on his shift, he loses his job and soon joins her parents working on a steamboat plying the Mississippi. Sam comes to suspect that on the downriver journey someone had seen this magical child and arranged to steal her away, and this quest leads him not only into this raucous...
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Bringing the same light and gentle understanding that he did to the story collection Same Place, Same Things, author Tim Gautreaux tells the tale of Paul and Colette, star-crossed and factious lovers struggling to make it in rural south Louisiana. When Colette, fed up with small town life, perceives yet another indiscretion by the fun-loving Paul, she heads for Los Angeles, with big dreams and Paul in tow. Paul's attempts to draw his beautiful young...
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"In his stunning debut collection, Tim Gautreaux chronicles the lives of "ordinary" people - a farmer on his porch, a woman fixing her tractor, a train engineer passing through a small town - who face extraordinary circumstances or decisions. The farmer has just learned he must raise his infant granddaughter; the woman is about to watch a helicopter land in her back field; the train engineer will cause a colossal disaster. Most of these stories are...
4) The clearing
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With The Clearing, Southeastern Booksellers Award winner Tim Gautreaux delivers a brutal novel of love, family, and redemption. Randolph Aldridge travels to a snake-infested Cypress mill in Louisiana to find his brother Byron, a troubled veteran of World War I. Once there, Randolph finds that By is a shell of his former self-and that the murderous cartel controlling the mill's casino won't give them any peace.
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Del autor de la colección de relatos El mismo sitio, las mismas cosas, llega esta novela impregnada de un extraño y marcado sentido de la tradición y las nuevas oportunidades. Paul Thibodeaux es un atractivo joven casado con Colette, la mujer más hermosa del pequeño pueblo de Luisiana en el que crecieron.
Para Paul, la vida es plena, con una mujer a la que ama, máquinas que reparar, y un bullicioso local al que ir a bailar. Pero Colette...
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Como si de una crónica se tratara, Los mismos sitios, las mismas cosas narra las vidas comunes de gente normal ante circunstancias y decisiones extraordinarias. Un granjero que se enfrenta al reto de criar a su nieta, un joven que se enamora platónicamente de una voz de la radio o un ingeniero que provoca un accidente de tren de dimensiones colosales.
Son historias llenas de corazón y de humor en las que los actos y sus consecuencias, en el contexto...
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Tim Gautreaux vuelve a sorprendernos con esta nueva serie de relatos publicados originalmente en Atlantic Magazine y recopilados más tarde en el libro Welding with children que da título al primer relato. Todo lo que vale son pequeñas piezas maestras llenas de humor y de ternura que narran las vidas anónimas de los entrañables personajes que componen el tejido social y emocional del entorno rural de Luisiana.
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Antes de la Gran Guerra, Byron Aldridge llevaba una vida apacible en Pensilvania como heredero de un imperio maderero. Para su hermano pequeño Randolph, Byron ejercía de guía y de ídolo. Pero tras la guerra, el carismático Byron regresa de Francia convertido en un hombre diferente. Atormentado, huye de la familia y, después de pasar por diversos lugares y oficios, se refugia en un pequeño aserradero de la remota Luisiana, en donde trabajará...
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After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with twelve new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina, and even in midwinter Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith,...
10) Signals
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"A widely celebrated novelist gives us a generous collection of exhilarating short stories, proving that he is a master of this genre as well. Once again, "he reminds us," wrote The Miami Herald, "that great writing is a timeless art." After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with twelve new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved...