Nothing with strings : NPR's beloved holiday stories

White, Bailey. (Author). National Public Radio (U.S.) (Added Author).

Summary: A holiday collection of short fiction shares vignettes that capture the eccentric lives of the inhabitants of a small Southern town, from an efficiency expert who gets Christmas down to forty-five minutes flat, to a woman who claims John James Audubon is living in her attic.

Record details

ISBN: 1439102260
ISBN: 9781439102268
Physical Description: print
vii, 193 p. ; 21 cm.
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2008.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Meals-On-Wheels -- Long black veil -- What would they say in Birmingham? -- Progress of deglutition -- Telephone man -- Miss Wigglesworth's bull -- Bus ride -- Return to sender -- Lonesome without you -- The garden -- Nothing with strings -- Green bus -- Almost gone.