The Refugee

by Thomas McGuane

Genres: Literary Fiction; Short Stories

Synopsis

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
 
“Errol Healy was going sailing to evade custody in one of the several institutions recommended for his care.” Haunted by memories of his best friend’s death and the witch, Miss Florence Ewing, Errol sets forth from Key West alone aboard the Czarina. Alcohol-drenched and steeped in excruciating loneliness, Errol faces the harshest conditions of climate in the Gulf.
 
“The Refugee” is the magisterial, penultimate story from Gallatin Canyon by Thomas McGuane, called the “Flannery O’Connor of the New West.”
 
An ebook Short.

Release date: May 25, 2016

Publisher: Vintage

Print pages: 32