Nude in Tub: Stories of Quillifarkeag, Maine

by G.K. Wuori

Here is G.K. Wuori, out of nowhere and wielding a deadly his vision of our America...it's the raw. Wuori fiction is something entirely and wildly its own. Like Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, Mark Richard, Lewis Nordan, Wuori doesn't care to mollycoddle the reader. He's here, in this daring debut collection, to reflect what's on his America's fascination with violence, with sex, with racism, with joyful immortality. Set in the northernmost corner of Maine, in a town "usually omitted from cheap maps," Nude in Tub is about a young couple who make love on La-Z-Boys in the middle of a highway, about an old woman who finds a pine tree growing from her leg, about newlyweds who paint their whole house black and themselves white, and about several more stripped-down others, including, of course, a nude in tub. Descendants of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburgers, Wuori's Quillifarkeagans are Americans at the millenium, good citizens whose reality has been tweaked, twitted, quirked, smirked and found to be grimly goofy. These people - each of them caught in their own startling moment of nakedness - all live by the same If you're in trouble, we'll help. But we'll still laugh like hell.

Genres: Short Stories

294 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Gabriel · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Like boiled down King."

Kinky, desperate, heartwarming, and disturbing stories-sometimes all at once-come together to form a picture of small-town Maine written through the eyes of life-longer's and newcomers alike that represents what it means to be from a place too small for maps to care about. Worth the blind trust that it all works out in the end.

[Wiralba · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very odd book but quite good and hooking

[Elizabeth Ruby · Rating 2 out of 5]

I only liked a few of these stories. The rest were just wierd and nonsensical