"Every story is about someone who wants something while someone or something stands for a while or forever in the way," writes Miller Williams. "These are about one Kelvin Fletcher, sometime around the middle of the twentieth century, who wanted to be good and wanted to grow up. What stood in the way of either was the other." In seven stories capped by a novella, The Lives of Kelvin Fletcher probes the heart and mind of a young man striving for self-discovery amid circumstances by turns hilarious and poignant. Opening with Kelvin at age ten in his small southern hometown, the collection follows him through school, home, church, and ultimately across the threshold of adulthood in revolution-torn Central America. Each successive experience leaves Kelvin with a newer, if not always clearer, outlook on life's essentials: death, love, faith, and friendship. Whether seen through a ship's porthole, a stained glass window, or a peephole in the wall of a school locker room, the world is as wonderful and perplexing a place to Kelvin as it is to all of us.
- ISBN10 0820324396
- ISBN13 9780820324395
- Publish Date 1 October 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Georgia Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English