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In Mr.Tall, his first story collection in two decades, Tony Earley brings us seven rueful, bittersweet, riotous studies of characters both ordinary and mythical, seeking to make sense of the world transforming around them. He demonstrates once again the prodigious storytelling gifts that have made him one of the most accomplished writers of his generation.

In the title story, a lonely young bride terrifyingly shares a remote mountain valley with a larger-than-life neighbor, while the grieving widow of The Cryptozoologist is sure she''s been visited by a Southern variant of Bigfoot. Have You Seen the Stolen Girl? introduces us to the ghost of Jesse James, who plagues an elderly woman in the wake of a neighborhood girl''s abduction. In Haunted Castles of the Barrier Islands a newly empty-nest couple stumbles through an impenetrable Outer Banks fog seeking a new life to replace the one they have lost, while Yard Art follows the estranged wife of a famous country singer a

Mr. Tall

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    A Paperback / softback by Tony Earley

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      Publisher Back Bay Books
      Published 27 August 2015
      ISBN-13 9780316246149
      978-0316246149
      ISBN-10 031624614X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In Mr.Tall, his first story collection in two decades, Tony Earley brings us seven rueful, bittersweet, riotous studies of characters both ordinary and mythical, seeking to make sense of the world transforming around them. He demonstrates once again the prodigious storytelling gifts that have made him one of the most accomplished writers of his generation.

      In the title story, a lonely young bride terrifyingly shares a remote mountain valley with a larger-than-life neighbor, while the grieving widow of The Cryptozoologist is sure she''s been visited by a Southern variant of Bigfoot. Have You Seen the Stolen Girl? introduces us to the ghost of Jesse James, who plagues an elderly woman in the wake of a neighborhood girl''s abduction. In Haunted Castles of the Barrier Islands a newly empty-nest couple stumbles through an impenetrable Outer Banks fog seeking a new life to replace the one they have lost, while Yard Art follows the estranged wife of a famous country singer a

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