Signals, Tim Gautreaux
Signals, Tim Gautreaux
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Signals
New and Selected Stories

Author: Tim Gautreaux

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 13 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/17/2017

Synopsis

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, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina, and even in midwinter Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith, and the pros and cons of tight-knit communities—a remarkable cast of characters, primarily of the working class, proud and knowledgeable about the natural or mechanical world, their lives marked by a prized stereo or a magical sewing machine retrieved from a locked safe, boats and card games, and casinos, grandparents and grandchildren and those in between, their experiences leading them to the ridiculous or the scarifying or the sublime; most of them striving for what's right and good, others tearing off in the opposite direction.

About Tim Gautreaux

Tim Gautreaux is the author of three novels and two earlier short story collections. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic, Harper's, and GQ. After teaching for thirty years at Southeastern Louisiana University, he now lives with his wife in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Reviews

Goodreads review by L.A. on April 02, 2017

Wow. This is another of the few books to which I would give six or seven stars if it were possible. Signals is a book of short stories by Tim Gautreaux, and it should be on EVERYONE's reading list, no matter how many or few books you read a year. It should be on TBR bookshelves and assigned in every......more

Goodreads review by Lark on January 30, 2019

Tim Gautreaux's writing is refreshingly straightforward. His stories accumulate one detail after another, with such a gripping attention to each perfect observation, one after another, that I accept these stories as fact as I read. Gautreaux's characters are working-class tragic--not in the 'heroic......more

Goodreads review by Kathryn on March 11, 2017

I liked all the stories in this collection. They exactly the kind of stories that I enjoy: well-constructed and classic with well-defined setting and characters, and a plot in which something happens and someone changes, at least a bit. I especially liked the last story in the collection, “What We D......more

Goodreads review by Taufiq on January 28, 2025

Surprisingly captivating. The 21 short stories in this book almost all take place in small towns in Louisiana, featuring ordinary people as the main characters. They repair stoves, help with pest control, or are writers who tirelessly churn out work that isn’t very good. Tim Gaultreaux uses these hid......more

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