Short Bus Carr Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9781933896540

Short BusAuthor(s): Brian Allen Carr\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Texas Review Press, United States\nImprint: Texas Review Press\nISBN-13: 9781933896540, 978-1933896540\nSynopsis\nShort Bus is a darkly humorous collection of linked stories set in the southern haunts of coastal Texas--near where the Rio Grande dumps its brackish water into the Gulf of Mexico. The stories in this book ponder deformity in all its forms. Fetuses twist their mustaches, feet float in jars, a special- education teacher aims to rob a bank with the aid of his students. But binding these stories is a gentle humanity. Brian Allen Carr moves his grotesque characters toward the hollows of hearts, heaving despicable actions toward tender outcomes. Short Bus is a book about understanding the worst of us, smiling at that which makes us shudder.\n\n 'Brian Allen Carr's brain must be a snarl of firing pistons, sizzling fuses, hoses leaking blood and tequila and hydraulic oil. How else can you explain the twisted mac)