tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145710941267147392.post-28540796803962691912007-08-29T07:28:00.000-07:002008-02-23T18:54:29.120-08:00<div align="center"><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_3cBCJU26RZs/RtmqtwvJQPI/AAAAAAAAACk/-H9wqf3bNqg/s1600-h/halfmammals+bamm.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105299355754643698" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_3cBCJU26RZs/RtmqtwvJQPI/AAAAAAAAACk/-H9wqf3bNqg/s200/halfmammals+bamm.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong>“Singleton’s South doesn’t look like anybody else’s.”<br />—The Atlanta-Journal Constitution</strong><br /><br />This second collection of short stories by a bright star in Southern fiction showcases a town so tiny it missed the map, the gleefully off-the-wall Southerners who refuse to be pigeonholed, and a South far removed from big-city Atlanta and proper Charleston. As the author says of his characters,<br />"They're regular people just trying to get by."<br /><br /><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_3cBCJU26RZs/RtWQNQvJQAI/AAAAAAAAAAs/r1tR2jweEGA/s1600-h/Half+Mammals.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104144310199730178" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_3cBCJU26RZs/RtWQNQvJQAI/AAAAAAAAAAs/r1tR2jweEGA/s200/Half+Mammals.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Among them: a boy whose reputation is ruined when he appears in a head-lice documentary; a lovelorn father who woos his third-grader's teacher with creative show-and-tells; and a former pharmaceuticals salesman who waits for the word of God to tell him what to paint on next the "primitive" canvases he sells for big bucks to an art dealer.</div>George Singletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08049377554437456881noreply@blogger.com