Vinyl Cafe Unplugged
Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Epigraph Pet Sounds Arthur Galway The Fly I’ve Got You Under My Skin Christmas Presents Harrison Ford’s Toes Dorothy Who’s Sorry Now? The Last Kind Word Blues The Bare Truth Susan Is Serious I Fall to Pieces Odd Jobs The Razor’s Edge Morley’s Christmas Pageant Someone to Watch Over Me Figs Love Never Ends Praise for Stuart McLean and Home from the Vinyl Cafe “Stuart McLean is a natural storyteller with an ear cocked for real talk and a perfect sense of comic timing. In the modern line of Peter DeVries, Garrison Keillor, and fellow Canadian Stephen Leacock, McLean is a sly, entertaining humorist and an expert on the inexhaustible subject of human foibles.”—Billy Collins “McLean draws his characters in such a way that we all know people just like them . Terrific.” —The Providence Journal “This folksy collection of stories follows a year in the life of Dave and Morley and their family. Christmas, summer camp, first dates, and other minutiae are covered in a warm and engaging manner. The stories . make for pleasant reading.” —Booklist “An irresistible wit, warmth, and verve.” —Ann-Marie MacDonald, author of Fall on Your Knees “Think Garrison Keillor but with an urban twist. McLean is a natural storyteller, a modern Will Rogers if you will, with an ear for dialogue that is real and often laugh-out-loud funny.” —Tucson Citizen “Pure comic genius.” —The Halifax Chronicle-Herald “Stuart McLean is a storyteller par excellence . These are characters and situations that many readers will want to visit over and over.” —Quill & Quire “Rip-roaringly funny .
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