Fountains of Youth

by Stephen Ausherman

Book Overview

An abandoned orphan left in the care of a Hindu hotel owner with three vivacious, of-age daughters, a quest for a missing father, the red-neckest county in the state, and abounding superstition--all... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931982562
• ISBN13: 9781931982566
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Livingston Press (AL)
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

a deeper reading

Contrary to the review above, Garrison Keillor is neither a journalist nor an apt comparison to Lester Current. (Instead, envision Charles Kuralt on a bender.) Also - being enamored with the South is not a prerequisite for appreciating charm. That said, Fountains of Youth's deceptively simplistic narrator belies a host of ironies, namely that this clever little story amounts to something more than standard Southern lit. At times it almost reads more like magical realism. For starters, Stillwater is indeed a mythical land: rednecks and racism are inexplicably absent from this collection of impoverished rural Southern communities. (And I don't want to give too much away here, but look what they do to the Dixie flag.) While its not lit on the level of Marquez, careful readers might be surprised to learn what's really going on in this little county.