{"product_id":"decoration-day-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"Decoration Day and Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGerald Duff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDecoration Day and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e ranges in locale from the piney woods of Deep East Texas, to the mean streets of Memphis, to the suburbs of Washington, DC. Highly comic and deeply serious, the collection reaches from the late 19th century to the present day. The title story centers on elderly sisters striving to save an unjustly accused man from a lynch mob, while at the same time fetch home a wagonload of flowering bushes to commemorate their dead in the family cemetery. Captive to private delusions and bound to dreams of what ought to be, each character in Duff's eleven stories struggles for escape, redemption, and the healing power of memory.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGERALD DUFF'S short stories and poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Sewanee Review, Georgia Review, Missouri Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and other magazines. In addition to a memoir and two collections of poetry, he has published seven novels and a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eFire Ants\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the Jesse Jones Award for Fiction in 2008 from the Texas Institute of Letters. The title story won the Cohen Award from \u003ci\u003ePloughshares \u003c\/i\u003eand was reprinted in \u003ci\u003eThe Editors' Choice: New American Stories \u003c\/i\u003eand cited in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46930954256523,"sku":"9781936205561","price":39.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/z34HY-raq99781936205561.webp?v=1778831525","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/decoration-day-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}