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Scavengers: and Other Stories
Barclay Bates
Scavengers: and Other Stories
Barclay Bates
The stories in Scavengers are about people fighting to gain or hold onto some good. For the six-year-old heroine of "Dixie Lee" it is innocence, threatened by her kidnapper. Gilda, the young English teacher of "Scavengers," disappointed in love, wants a baby by artificial insemination. Middleton, the bumbling and incorrigible romantic of "Following Keats," seeks love in Italy. In "Fish or Fowl" Isabel Larkin, lost in La-La land, seems uncertain about her identity--but not about doing what is right. Jeff Franklin, in "This Day in Yankee History," tries mightily to convey his respect and liking for a distrustful young black boy he meets at the ballpark. These and others--a handsome alcoholic, a sex-obsessed homeless man, an ambitious cop, a professor drawn toward violence, a guilt-ridden man with a snuff movie--all struggle to possess a small part of what they have lost, thrown away, or never had.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 30, 2004 |
ISBN13 | 9780595662852 |
Publishers | iUniverse.com |
Pages | 128 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 11 mm · 344 g |
Language | English |