Long Time Ago Good - White, Lowell Mick
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This story collection-a finalist for the annual first fiction award presented by the Texas Institute of Letters-explores Austin, Texas, a city famous for music, football, and drunken fun frolics- and famous too for traffic jams, anomie, and dislocation. In Long Time Ago Good, Lowell Mick White imaginatively recreates this city, this region. Here is a folksy reporter covering a chitlins cook-off, a ragged cab driver fighting for his life, a lonely jewelrymaker focusing too much on the past-a high tech worker losing her job, a bureaucrat looking for something more. These stories are populated by…mehr

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This story collection-a finalist for the annual first fiction award presented by the Texas Institute of Letters-explores Austin, Texas, a city famous for music, football, and drunken fun frolics- and famous too for traffic jams, anomie, and dislocation. In Long Time Ago Good, Lowell Mick White imaginatively recreates this city, this region. Here is a folksy reporter covering a chitlins cook-off, a ragged cab driver fighting for his life, a lonely jewelrymaker focusing too much on the past-a high tech worker losing her job, a bureaucrat looking for something more. These stories are populated by depressed men, angry women, frustrated dogs, and fearful cats-filled with heat waves and heartbreaks, thunderstorms and belly-laughs: with all that is modern Texas- and America….
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Lowell Mick White is the author of seven books: That Demon Life, Long Time Ago Good, Professed, Burnt House, The Messes We Make of Our Lives, Normal School, and Answers Without Questions. A winner of the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, White received his PhD from Texas A&M University.