The Girl from Charnelle
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—Booklist
“K. L. Cook’s Last Call captures the bittersweet dysfunction of the everyday like a Bob Wills tune, sweetness shining in the rhythm of Cook’s carefully juxtaposed stories…. The stories themselves are much like the hard lives of people we know and meet daily, but Last Call has wrapped them into a brilliant puzzle that manages to permeate feelings of desperation and dull despair with a sense of hope—the notion that just one good decision or one kind word might be enough to make things work out.”
—Tucson Weekly
“The stories in Last Call are about fractured families, lovers and losers (often one and the same), and coming-of-age the hard way. Cook writes with ease and naturalness and a wonderful, sorrowful knowledge of human foibles.”
—Jean Thompson
“The stories in Last Call are so entertaining it seems almost unfair that they also resonate powerfully long after you’ve put down the book. K. L. Cook has whopping gifts, and this is a splendid book.”
—Robert Boswell
“Last Call is a terrific first book. K. L. Cook starts with the pungent inventory of country-western songs but lights it all, even his honky-tonks, fried food, downed trees, sick dogs, and rain, with a new understanding of men and women. These are rich stories by an exciting new voice.”
—Ron Carlson
ALSO BY K. L. COOK
Last Call: Stories
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE GIRL FROM CHARNELLE. Copyright © 2006 by K. L. Cook. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub © Edition NOVEMBER 2008 ISBN: 9780061979767
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