There Ain't No Such Animal

The stories in this book are the kind you might hear sitting on the porch past dark listening to distant hounds after a fox in the southeast Texas bottoms tales with some truth and some lies and much pleasure take in the telling and the listening tales with a strong sense of place and people rooted firmly in the oral tradition.Sure enough there “ain’t no such animal” as a completely honest man as the title story shows. Other stories tell of justice as swift and sure as a mule’s kick of epic brawls and the trials of courtship of poachers politicians and preachers of hogs and dogs and horse traders of good neighboring and bad blood of life and death and youth and age in southeast Texas as it was early in the twentieth century.In the tradition of Frank Dobie and Fred Gipson Bill Brett writes with the natural humor and wisdom of the folk themselves. His stories will delight anyone with an interest in folk life or with the inclination to stop and “set a spell” and listen to a good yarn.