Chicken Ranch Charm School
And Other Short Fiction
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Chicken Ranch Charm School is a collection of twenty works of short fiction, satire, and humor. Most of the pieces in the book have received awards or national recognition, including "Jumping Off the Sunshine Bridge"; which won the prestigious Vardis Fisher Award for Humor. Set in Texas and New York City, the stories involve a diverse cast of characters, including a boy evangelist, professional poker players, a cattle rancher, Greyhound bus drivers, and a newspaper advice columnist.
Customer Reviews
Chicken Ranch .…Must read
I'm excited. Even though I have my autographed copy, as do my children, I love reading the 'short stories' multiple times. May be I'm dense, but rather I think it is because the short insights intrigue me. Just enough proper prose mixed with my friend's weird sense of humor.
Hidden in the light reading, will be the pearls of 'characters' that have emerged from the varied life of a rural farm boy who had papal ritual burials for his cat, to a man with intricate observations of the composite unique characters that make up humanity. Writing so often of those whose tangential encounters range from obvious area 'knowns' to random strangers making impactful impressions, a powerful study of human observation.
I find that in later years, Murray, who never lacked of verbose vocabulary has moved on to 'the new word of the day' , or perhaps a thesaurus gone mad!!
I'll download via iTunes and read at will when the meeting gets too dull, the airplane trip too long, or when an iPhone is available & the book not!
Thank you for sharing!