La Leona
And Other Guitar Stories
James Gallant
9781943156955
178 pages
Schaffner Press Inc
Overview
James Gallant's highly imaginative story collection provides a kaleidoscopic journey through the evolution of the classical guitar and guitar music as the backdrop to the hurly-burly of western cultural history that includes whimsical cameos of historical characters such as Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and Jean-Paul Marat. In a style that is reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Peter Cameron, these fictions make twists and turns as surprising and delightful as the music Mr. Gallant celebrates.
Author Bio
James Gallant is an Ohio native and has lived in the South for over thirty years. He plays classical guitar and is the author of Verisimilitudes: Essays and Approximations, The Big Bust at Tyrone's Rooming House: A Novel of Atlanta, and Whatever Happened to Ohio?