Robert Flynn - Living With the Hyenas: Short Stories
Here you can read online Robert Flynn - Living With the Hyenas: Short Stories full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 1995, publisher: Texas Christian University Press, genre: Detective and thriller. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:
Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.
Living With the Hyenas: Short Stories: summary, description and annotation
We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Living With the Hyenas: Short Stories" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.
Robert Flynn: author's other books
Who wrote Living With the Hyenas: Short Stories? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.
Living With the Hyenas: Short Stories — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work
Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Living With the Hyenas: Short Stories" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.
Korean War, 1950-1953--Fiction, Texas--Social life and customs--Fiction.
publication date
:
1995
lcc
:
PS3556.L9L58 1995eb
ddc
:
813/.54
subject
:
Korean War, 1950-1953--Fiction, Texas--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Acknowledgements
Versions of the following stories have been published previously in periodical form: "Volunteers" in Blue Mesa Review; "A Boy and His Dog" in Concho River Review; ''Living with the Hyenas" in Concho River Review and New Growth 2; "Flight To Amman" in New Texas '91; "Women Don't Know" in This Place of Memory; "Reluctant Truth" in Southwestern American Literature; and "Defender of the Faith" in Re: Arts and Letters.
Copyright 1995, Robert Flynn
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Flynn, Robert, 1932 Living with the hyenas : short stories / by Robert Flynn. p. cm. ISBN 0-87565-144-5 (alk. paper) 1. Korean War, 1950-1953Fiction. 2. TexasSocial life and customs Fiction. I Title. PS3556.L9L58 1995 813'. 54dc20
95-8082 CIP
Cover and Text Designed by Barbara Whitehead
Contents
Foreword
ix
War
Land of the Free
1
How I Won the War
37
A Boy and His Dog
45
Fraternities
61
Defender of the Faith
73
Volunteers
81
Armistice
Reluctant Truth
99
Flight to Amman
113
Women Don't Know
125
At Play in the Sewers of the Lord
133
Things No One Told Me
143
The Perfect Gift
153
X-Mas
167
Peace
Games Children Play
177
A Second Chance
191
Living with the Hyenas
201
For Colin Don'l Flynn Bass
Page ix
Foreword
The beginnings of my stories are so small and the process covers such a long period of time that I usually have trouble remembering where a story begins or an idea comes from. "Land of the Free" was one of those ideas that developed over many years. It began with the memory of a story I heard as a child. An older high school boy was temporarily assigned to drive a school bus. One day he didn't stop to let a girl off the bus, instead pretending he was going to run away with her. The details of the story are hazy, but it was told to me as a joke. Today, it would be sexual harassment, but at the time, it was the kind of rough way that boys teased girls they were attracted to.
The story bothered me, even as a child, maybe because I identified with the victim rather than with the trickster. I
Page x
first tried to write it from the point of view of a teenage girl whose dignity triumphs over a prankster, but I couldn't get the story going. I moved the story back to the 1930s or '40s, a time when many women could expect male protection, a husband, father or brother to come to their defense. Those stories didn't work either because they escalated toward violence, and I didn't want a resolution by the biggest fist or fastest gun.
Similar books «Living With the Hyenas: Short Stories»
Look at similar books to Living With the Hyenas: Short Stories. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.
Reviews about «Living With the Hyenas: Short Stories»
Discussion, reviews of the book Living With the Hyenas: Short Stories and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.
