Oscar & Ethel

A Tale of Married Love

by Henry A. Buchanan


Formats

Softcover
£13.00
Softcover
£13.00

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 01/07/2002

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 128
ISBN : 9780759693951

About the Book

OSCAR & ETHEL is a tale made up of many tales of a lovable and zany couple who clash over Ethel’s garden boundaries and suffer the heartbreak of a reading public that ignores Oscar’s Southern Tales on the far flung book signing circuit. They return home together to the struggle between the blue birds and the sparrows for control of the nesting area in that contested garden. And to the tragedy of baby wrens swallowed by a snake that invades the wrens’ house.

And to the joy of a grandson born far to the North and requiring Oscar’s presence for the christening. Then he must go South to the Ocmulgee Indian Mounds where his Papa uncovered the story of the People who lived there long ago. And after that to Florida where his brother waits for him. But Ethel hovers always as the stern guardian angel over Oscar, until she herself is brushed by angels’ wings.

But Ethel has her seat belt fastened, and that damn’ computer still reigns, a tyrant in the house of Oscar & Ethel.


About the Author

Henry Buchanan writes as if he almost IS Oscar, which he almost is. The Georgia born Teller of Southern Tales lives in Kentucky where he has created Scarrsville, a town not on the map, except in the make believe land he has discovered for his Kentucky tales, just as Ocmulgee is for his Georgia stories.

Buchanan is a mythologist, a theologian, and a teller of tales both old and new. His first book of Southern Tales was AND THE GOAT CRIED. Then he published his mythological works: THE MARRIAGE MYTH, THE TELEVANGELIST, THE SINNER MESSIAH, THE DAY CHRIST CAME BACK. Then came his political satires: JAY CEE, IN THE TOBACCO PATCH, and THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER. After this he offered Alfie, the tales from his own boyhood: ALFIE’S STORY, ALFIE AND THE MOONSHINERS, AND THE REST OF ALFIE’S STORY.

Turning back to his Southern Tales, Buchanan wrote a sequel to THE GOAT CRIED and called it THE GOAT ALSO LAUGHED. Then THE TALE OF THE CAT WHO HAD NO TAIL. But only LOVE is a subject big enough for Henry Buchanan, so there was NO GREATER LOVE, A Love Story; FOR LOVE OF LEANDER, A Romance; OEDIPUS REVISITED, A Tragedy; and now a Tale Of Married Love called OSCAR & ETHEL. This caps the stack with both humor and pathos, plumbs the depths of human emotion and reaches for the heights of literary ambition. OSCAR & ETHEL will speak to every old married couple in the land for every old married couple in the land will say "We are Oscar and Ethel."