THE MOONSHINER AND OTHER STORIES

About the Book

These thirteen stories reflect different dimensions of the human spirit. Hugh in “The Moonshiner,” Maggie in “The Fight,” and George in “The Drunkard” show remarkable courage when facing physical danger. Myra Lu in “Dyin’ on Time” and John in “The Lost Summer” reveal admirable endurance when facing adversity. In “Talking to the Dead” and “The Strange Requests,” the Reverends Calahan and Hester struggle against superstition and disbelief. Zack in “The Chicken Thieves” discovers that crime doesn’t pay. And characters in “Grandma Excie’s Exit,” “Summer Porch Talk,” “The Prayers” and other stories confront life’s complexities of sadness, joy, humor, pain and death. The setting for these stories: southeastern North Carolina. The time: the depression decade of the thirties.

About the Author

George G. Suggs, Jr. is a native of North Carolina and a retired professor of history. He was educated at Wake Forest University and the University of Colorado-Boulder (BA ‘55, MA ‘57, PhD ‘64). In 1959-60, he received a John Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities for post-graduate study at Northwestern University, and in 1980-81 he received a NEH Resident Fellowship for post-doctoral study at Brown University. He is the author of six non-fiction books, numerous articles and book reviews. The Moonshiner and Other Stories is his second work of fiction.