The Capital of Kansas City
stories
by Gary Gildner
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Pub Date Apr 30 2016 | Archive Date Aug 02 2016
BkMk Press | BKMK Press
Description
In Gary Gildner’s fourth collection of stories, composition teacher Wanda
Delight, in heels long and sharp enough to pierce a rattler, loses her heart
to prime example Timmy Sheean; WWII vet Sergeant Major George Prolly
fl ees Piney Woods Rest in his wheelchair, leaving behind Miss Flambeau
the exotic dancer; Kansas City lawyer Mary Beth Urquhart makes her way
among her long-ago college poetry professor, truck driver Marvin Gaye,
and the cologned-up, slippery father of a White Sox pitching phenom.
Elsewhere, the bishop’s teenaged nephew and yard boy, “Samson” Tuohy, is
smitten by Professor Singh’s young cello-playing wife Isabel—plus there’s
Polish beauty Beata, old bronc rider Ray Wheeler, Aunt Gussie, the king
and queen of the swans, and many more.
Advance Praise
Nobel laureate Alice Munro has said of Gary Gildner’s art: “There is sucha good feeling about [his] stories—that the writer knows his people, thewhole texture of their lives, in different lights, that he’ll take you a longway into them, and you’ll always be surprised and satisfi ed in the right way,never tricked or betrayed.”
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781943491025 |
| PRICE | $15.95 (USD) |
