(FB2) Why Dogs Chase Cars by George Singleton

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    Why Dogs Chase Cars
    Tales of a Beleaguered Boyhood

    by George Singleton

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    • Release date: September 17, 2004
    • Places: South Carolina
    • ISBN: 9781565124042 (1565124049)
    • Author: George Singleton
    • Publisher: A Shannon Ravenel Book
    • Language: english
    • Format: paperback, 312 pages
    • Genres: fiction, essays

    About The Book

    These fourteen funny stories tell the tale of a beleaguered boyhood down home where the dogs still run loose. As a boy growing up in the tiny backwater town of Forty-Five, South Carolina (where everybody is pretty much one beer short of a six-pack), all Mendal Dawes wants is out.

    It’s not just his hometown that’s hopeless. Mendal’s father is just as bad. Embarrassing his son to death nearly every day, Mr. Dawes is a parenting guide’s bad example. He buries stuff in the backyard — fake toxic barrels, imitation Burma Shave signs (BIRD ON A WIRE, BIRD ON A PERCH, FLY TOWARD HEAVEN, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH), yardstick collections. He calls Mendal “Fuzznuts” and makes him recite Marx and Durkheim daily and befriend a classmate rumored to have head lice.

    Mendal Dawes is a boy itching to get out of town, to take the high road and leave the South and his dingbat dad far behind — just like those car-chasing dogs.

    But bottom line, this funky, sometimes outrageous, and always very human tale is really about how Mendal discovers that neither he nor the dogs actually want to catch a ride, that the hand that has fed them has a lot more to offer. On the way to watching that light dawn, we also get to watch the Dawes’s precarious relationship with a place whose “gene pool [is] so shallow that it wouldn’t take a Dr. Scholl’s insert to keep one’s soles dry.”

    To be consistently funny is a great gift. To be funny and cynical and empathetic all at the same time is George Singleton’s special gift, put brilliantly into play in this new collection.

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