Argument Against the Good-Looking Corpse
Stories
978-1-933896-53-3 Cloth
5.5 x 8.5 x 0.5 in
160 pp.
Pub Date: 06/28/2011
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Argument Against the Good-Looking Corpse is the quixotic debut of a new Texas writer featuring an ethereal blend of cautionary tale and comic case study with heaping helpings of sex, death, and resurrection. Each story is a self-contained adventure; each a keenly observed stop on the path to revealing a son’s true north to a dying father.
Profiting from a front man’s feel for the hood and a culturalist’s eye for the rare and peculiar, Alcorn examines his blood’s country through the flawed perspective of irresistible characters yearning for grace and connection in our increasingly isolated existence. With a flow at once picaresque and unchecked, these stories take us deep into the familiar, and beyond—to a borderland where magic is the reality and perception is but a plaything.
"Since taking up residence in this elbow of Eden, this former pig farm/meth lab on the banks of Coleto Creek, I've been reading a lot of the Big Yawp. And it's pretty clear, upon closer inspection, that my life's been clipped.
But only temporarily. And only in the most benevolent way."
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Published by Texas Review Press