Tim Gautreaux
1) The missing
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the devastation in France just as World War I, Sam Simoneaux went back to New Orleans eager for a normal life. But when a little girl disappears from a department store on his shift, he loses his job and soon joins her parents working on a steamboat plying the Mississippi. Sam comes to suspect that on the downriver journey someone had seen this magical child and arranged to steal her away, and this quest leads him not only into this raucous...
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A couple find out the hard way they are made for each other. Colette, a Louisiana bank teller marries mechanic Paul because he is good looking and a great dancer. Paul has no ambition, but Colette has and she leaves him for California. He follows, life is hard, they return. She becomes pregnant, he nearly dies fishing for shrimp, they fight, they divorce, they reunite.
3) The clearing
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
With The Clearing, Southeastern Booksellers Award winner Tim Gautreaux delivers a brutal novel of love, family, and redemption. Randolph Aldridge travels to a snake-infested Cypress mill in Louisiana to find his brother Byron, a troubled veteran of World War I. Once there, Randolph finds that By is a shell of his former self-and that the murderous cartel controlling the mill's casino won't give them any peace.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In this collection of stories, Tim Gautreaux chronicles the lives of "ordinary" people who face extraordinary circumstances and decisions: a farmer faced with the prospect of raising his infant granddaughter; a young man who falls in love with a voice on the radio; a train engineer who causes a colossal disaster. In stories filled with heart and humor, event and consequence, the customs and culture of Louisiana come to life in the hands of a writer...
5) Signals
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A widely celebrated novelist gives us a generous collection of exhilarating short stories, proving that he is a master of this genre as well. Once again, "he reminds us," wrote The Miami Herald, "that great writing is a timeless art." After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with twelve new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana,...
