Mr. Tall

Tony Earley

Two decades after his debut collection Here We Are in Paradise heralded Tony Earley as one of the most accomplished writers of his generation the rueful bittersweet and riotous stories of Mr. Tall reestablishhim as a mythmaker and tale spinner of the first rank. These stories introduce us not only to ordinary people seeking to live extraordinary lives but also to skunk ape (a southern variant of Bigfoot) the ghost of Jesse James and a bone-tired Jack the Giant Killer. Whether it's Appalachia Nashville the Carolina Coast or a make-believe land of talking dogs each world Earley creates is indelible.>