ISBN: 0-88739-310-1
206 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 02/2003
Paperback Original
Price: $14.95
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Immortal Mouth and Other Stories, The
Joseph Sutton
Joseph Sutton has an eye-for navel oranges and red rubies, for heroic cats and noble geckoes, for perfect mouths and super-sized bartenders. He has an ear-for festival rhythms and regional accents, bedtime stories, and cautionary tales. He has a heart-for the pull of tradition and the call of the road, for bright-eyed Greek beauties and unresponsive ladies of the night, for boys becoming men, and writers scraping by. Most of all Joseph Sutton has a voice that emerges strong and true in this remarkable collection of stories.
Review: "Imagine taking your seat for a long flight with your favorite book. But the guy sitting next to you starts telling a story. A minute later, you've closed the book. You ask to hear more. In an hour, you've laughed, sighed, gasped, held back a tear, then said to hell with it and let it fall. You don't want this flight to ever end. Joe Sutton is the guy talking, and he's also your pilot."
-Joe Quirk, author of The Ultimate Rush
"Joseph Sutton loads all the bases with such classic American themes as sports, travel on the road, and rollercoaster relationships... [and] brings these tales home with a literary grand slam in the title story that would have elicited a growl of approval from his celebrated role model, William Saroyan, and now evokes a howl of delight from us-the noisy fans in the bleachers. More, Joe, more!"
-Ramón Sender Barayón, author of A Death in Zamora
Bio: JOSEPH SUTTON lives in San Francisco with his wife and son. He is the author of Morning Pages, a novel, and the editor of Words and Wellness, a book of inspirational quotes.
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