In Tampa, the birds have been singing - doves, wrens, mockingbirds, even the jailbirds - but Kuka can't quite fit their message together until a Carolina wren starts a nest in a pocket of his shorts, which have been drying on the line much too long...Sometimes cracker blues, sometimes black humor, sometimes hammering revenge, sometimes love lyric - all the time A Bad Piece of Luck sings in a voice you won't forget.

A Bad Piece of Luck

Comics & Graphic Novels

Abrams, Tom

Graphic Novels

Livingston Pr

Kuka, a returning Vietnam vet, has an attitude, and Tampa, Florida needs to watch out. Set in Ybor City-Teddy Roosevelt's stomping ground before Cuba-this novel will show you that Crackers can indeed have and sing and live the blues.

Guatemala's tropics, Ohio's lazy suburbs, Florida's down-and-out Ybor City, Madrid's narrow streets and late tapa bar nights -- what Tom Abrams does with all these locales is almost as luxurious as what he does with the characters inhabiting them. Readers familiar with A Bad Piece of Luck will once more appreciate the down-and-dirty realism Abrams employs, but will find an added element . . . kismet? Well, that implies love, and while dimestore romance is as absent as the Dow Jones Index, there is love in these stories, a love of life and love of humanity -- no matter how mired it may become. So yes, kismet.

The Drinking of Spirits: Stories

Literature & Fiction

United States

Yonder Where the Road Bends

<p>Yonder Where the Road Bends follows the path of Virgil Hill, a 17 year-old fighter, as he comes to terms with loss and love in the aftermath of the War Between the States. The story moves from the streets of Tallahassee, to the battlefield at Natural Bridge, to a wilderness settlement along the Manatee River. There, in a house built on an ancient Indian mound, he meets the woman he will love. As an old man in a new and unwelcoming century, Virgil sums up his life and reflects on his unique relationship with two friends, who have stayed with him nearly 40 years, though gone from the world all that time.</p>

Literary

Livingston Press at the University of West Al

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A Bad Piece of Luck

A Bad Piece of Luck

The Drinking of Spirits: Stories

The Drinking of Spirits: Stories

Yonder Where the Road Bends

Yonder Where the Road Bends