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In the best tradition of southern storytelling, Uke Rivers Delivers features raconteurs as beguiling as the tales they tell. These lyrical, darkly humorous monologues portray a range of denizens of the American South desperately trying to come to grips with their inherited pasts. A Confederate reenactor receives a message from the beyond to lay to rest the remains of Stonewall Jackson's horse. A docent at Washington and Lee University's Lee Chapel offers prim instruction on the facts and legends about "the General" with both reverence and irony. The young son of a lewd, alcoholic, self-dubbed evangelist acquires the wits -- and the will -- for survival by protecting the family's sunflower crops. A midget ukulele virtuoso is so surprised by his own eruption into violence that he can attribute it only to genetics. One of Jeff Davis's fellow cross-dressers; the killer of John Wilkes Booth; a Rebel deserter whose superior exacts his pound of flesh -- all these characters and more, through their twisted and torn vernaculars, seek understanding and revival in R. T. Smith's superb collection.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Quotes
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Jesus Wept
  2. pp. 1-10
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  1. I Have Lost My Right
  2. pp. 11-20
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  1. Docent
  2. pp. 21-30
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  1. Tube Rose
  2. pp. 31-34
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  1. Trousseau
  2. pp. 35-50
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  1. Uke Rivers Delivers
  2. pp. 51-61
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  1. Bitterwolf
  2. pp. 62-83
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  1. Blaze
  2. pp. 84-86
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  1. Razorhead the Axeman
  2. pp. 87-92
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  1. Dear Six Belles,
  2. pp. 93-100
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  1. Little Sorrel
  2. pp. 101-112
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  1. Plinking
  2. pp. 113-118
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  1. Stop the Rocket
  2. pp. 119-128
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  1. Visitation
  2. pp. 129-133
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  1. Shooting Booth: The Confession of Boston Corbett
  2. pp. 134-140
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. 141-142
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  1. About the Author
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