- Hardcover: 259 pages
- Publisher: Vhps Trade (July 15 1989)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312029977
- ISBN-13: 978-0312029975
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.7 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
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From Publishers Weekly
This posthumous collection of 18 short stories by the author of The Night of the Hunter attests to the talent of this enriching, humane and under-esteemed writer. Grubb's stories are in the gothic manner, brimming with murder, madness and destructive passion, yet they are admirably controlled, and exhibit a rigorous morality mixed with an imagination undaunted by the dark chambers of the human heart. The title story is a ghoulish tale involving the disappearance of an orphan whose fantasy world becomes more real than her cruel life with her aunt and grandfather. Revenge is a prominent motif in "Return of Verge Likens," where the son of a man killed by a local hoodlum spends years working on an elaborate plan of vengeance, and in "Green Thumb," in which a dead man whose body was hidden by his killer wife leads authorities to the spot where he was buried. Orphans, bachelors, spinsters, cranks, psychotics and confidence men populate Grubb's remote West Virginia landscapes. Each story is introduced by an ironic comment from the author's notebooks, and the best of them are gems that will last.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
A collection of 18 short stories--some suspense, some southern slice of life--by the late author of The Night of the Hunter . Though originally found in magazines, this is the first time the stories are together in book form.--
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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We Need More!, May 15 2003
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This review is from: You Never Believe Me: And Other Stories (Hardcover)
Davis Grubb wrote roughly a dozen novels, all of which were good and at least three that bordered on great (The Night Of The Hunter, Fool's Parade & Ancient Lights). His three collections of short stories are all worth buying. This one may be the best. Very good stories with little scraps from his notebooks as a sort of rubic. This is a writer of such skill that there should be a complete collected stories available on him. Some publisher out there take note! And readers? BUY THIS BOOK!
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