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Sugar Among the Freaks

Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565128435
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Sugar Among the Freaks written by Lewis Nordan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1996-01-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by Richard Howorth and foreword by the author. The incomparable Lewis Nordan's first two collections of short fiction--WELCOME TO THE ARROW-CATCHER FAIR and THE ALL-GIRL FOOTBALL TEAM--originally published in 1983 and 1986, have long been out of print in all editions. Collectors' items, these two books are now almost impossible for Nordan fans to find anywhere.To rectify that, Algonquin is delighted to announce a selection of fifteen of the best stories from the two books, newly arranged and introduced by fellow Mississippian, bookseller Richard Howorth, and with a foreword by the author. Critics have called Lewis Nordan's fiction "extraordinary" and "marvelous" and "stunning" and "scorching" and "story-telling genius." The selected stories show that genius in the making. "Characters that people the South hobble and dance across the pages of his short stories."--United Press International; "Delightfully eccentric situations and colorful language add up to a work that is even stronger than WOLF WHISTLE."--Library Journal.

Lewis Nordan

Author : Barbara A. Baker
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817356819
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Lewis Nordan written by Barbara A. Baker and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Nordan: Humor, Heartbreak, and Hope examines and celebrates the work of southern writer Lewis “Buddy” Nordan, whose stories reveal his own pain and humanity and in their honesty force us to recognize ourselves within them. Written by scholars and fiction writers who represent a fascinating range of experience—from a Shakespearean scholar to English professors to a former student of Nordan’s—this is a rich array of essays, poems, and visual arts in tribute to this increasingly important writer. The collection deepens the base of scholarship on Nordan, and contextualizes his work in relation to other important southern writers such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. Nordan was born and raised in Mississippi before moving to Alabama to pursue his Ph.D. at Auburn University. He taught for several years at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and retired from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was a professor of English. Nordan has written four novels, three collections of short stories, and a memoir entitled Boy with Loaded Gun. His second novel, Wolf Whistle, won the Southern Book Award, and his subsequent novel, The Sharpshooter Blues, won the Notable Book Award from the American Library Association and the Fiction Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. Nordan is renowned for his distinctive comic writing style, even while addressing more serious personal and cultural issues such as heartbreak, loss, violence, and racism. He transforms tragic characters and events into moments of artistic transcendence, illuminating what he calls the “history of all human beings.”

Arkansas, Arkansas

Author : John Caldwell Guilds
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557285256
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Arkansas, Arkansas written by John Caldwell Guilds and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the expeditions of de Soto in the sixteenth century to the celebrated work of such contemporary writers as Maya Angelou, Ellen Gilchrist, and Miller Williams, Arkansas has enjoyed a rich history of letters. These two volumes gather the best work from Arkansas's rich literary history celebrating the variety of its voices and the national treasure those voices have become.

Music of the Swamp

Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565127838
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Music of the Swamp written by Lewis Nordan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1992-01-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page.” —Southern Living Lewis Nordan’s fiction invents its own world--always populated by madly heroic misfits. In Music of the Swamp, he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy’s utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father--a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin’s world with dazzling clarity: the smells, the tastes, and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar, somewhat bizarre, Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: “The Delta is filled up with death”; but he also finds an endless supply of hope. An ALA Notable Book Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award

The Sharpshooter Blues

Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 9781565121829
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Sharpshooter Blues written by Lewis Nordan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The identity of the Sharpshooter becomes a central theme in a story that introduces such prospective characters as the owner of the local funeral parlor, an avid comic-book reader, a man who shoots refrigerators, and a boy who never grew up

Lightning Song

Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565127641
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Lightning Song written by Lewis Nordan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leroy Dearman is twelve, and he lives on a llama farm in Mississippi. Life is perfect. It's true that his grandfather just died in the attic and that wild dogs kill a baby llama now and then, and it's true that one little sister curses him and the other one wets her pants. But up to the day Uncle Harris moves in, life looks like it's right out of a Walt Disney movie. No wonder the llamas greet each morning with a song. Uncle Harris arrives in a sports car, full of funny stories and new ideas. He manages to persuade Leroy's straitlaced parents to join him for cocktails in the evening. He sets up a pretty grand bachelor pad in the Dearman attic, with a telephone, a TV set, and a stack of Playboy magazines. He is, you might say, Romance itself. Once Uncle Harris moves in, life on the llama farm takes on an entirely different flavor. Leroy discovers those magazines. Electricity fills the Dearman house. Equilibrium tilts, conversation trails off, the atmospheric pressure twists--and lightning strikes. Leroy starts seeing things he's never seen before, like the very gifted baton-twirling teacher, and his world changes forever. Not since PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT has a novel looked so directly, hilariously, and bittersweetly at the heartbreak of puberty.

Music of the Swamp

Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565120167
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Music of the Swamp written by Lewis Nordan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sugar, a little boy growing up in the 1950s, encounters death in its many forms as he discovers a dead man in the swamp, digs up a dead woman from under the house, and sits on a dead druggist in the drugstore

The Cry of An Occasion

Author : Richard Bausch
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807127841
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book The Cry of An Occasion written by Richard Bausch and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “smorgasbord of literary offerings” (Publishers Weekly) self-selected by its contributors—“a long list of luminaries” (Library Journal)—includes works by Madison Smartt Bell, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, Ellen Douglas, Shelby Foote, George Garrett, Allan Gurganus, Barry Hannah, William Hoffman, Madison Jones, Michael Knight, William Henry Lewis, Jill McCorkle, Lewis Nordan, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Lee Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, Walter Sullivan, and Allen Wier. All are affiliated with the Fellowship of Southern Writers, organized in 1989 under the inspiration of the late Cleanth Brooks for the purpose of encouraging and honoring excellence in southern letters. Each piece in The Cry of an Occasion celebrates the distinctness of southern experience, giving expression in story form to a singular episode of mind, heart, or will. Reading this exemplary collection is pure pleasure.

Southern Writers

Author : Joseph M. Flora
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807131237
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Southern Writers written by Joseph M. Flora and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-06-21 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries-nearly double the earlier edition's-written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and chronological list of published works provide comprehensive, concise, up-to-date information. Here in one convenient source are the South's novelists and short story writers, poets and dramatists, memoirists and essayists, journalists, scholars, and biographers from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. What constitutes a "southern writer" is always a matter for debate. Editors Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel have used a generous definition that turns on having a significant connection to the region, in either a personal or literary sense. New to this volume are younger writers who have emerged in the quarter century since the dictionary's original publication, as well as older talents previously unknown or unacknowledged. For almost every writer found in the previous edition, a new biography has been commissioned. Drawn from the very best minds on southern literature and covering the full spectrum of its practitioners, Southern Writers is an indispensable reference book for anyone intrigued by the subject.

Boy with Loaded Gun

Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565121996
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Boy with Loaded Gun written by Lewis Nordan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his awkward childhood growing up in Missisippi, his career as a novelist, and his outlook on life

Book Lust

Author : Nancy Pearl
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1570616590
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Book Lust written by Nancy Pearl and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book," has devised reading lists that cater to every mood, occasion, and personality. These annotated lists cover such topics as mother-daughter relationships, science for nonscientists, mysteries of all stripes, African-American fiction from a female point of view, must-reads for kids, books on bicycling, "chick-lit," and many more. Pearl's enthusiasm and taste shine throughout.

Perfect Killer

Author : Lewis Perdue
Publisher : Lewis Perdue
ISBN 13 : 9780765340672
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Perfect Killer written by Lewis Perdue and published by Lewis Perdue. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Legacy No fear. No conscience. No mistakes. For over seventy years, Project Enduring Valor has sought the Holy Grail of combat medicine: a drug that would turn ordinary soldiers into ruthlessly efficient killers. Now, after decades of secret trial and error, Enduring Valor is ready to be implemented on a massive scale--despite devastating side-effects. Neurosurgeon Bradford Stone is being hunted by the Project's director, a retired war hero turned presidential candidate. To get back his life and expose the truth, Stone must penetrate the very heart of the conspiracy before a sociopathic "killing machine" permanently damaged by the drug becomes President of the United States. Perfect Killer is an engrossing and original thriller that probes the very nature of the human mind.

Delta Land

Author : Maude Schuyler Clay
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578061778
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Delta Land written by Maude Schuyler Clay and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting photo project and prose involving recording and preservation of Mississippi Delta landscapes features its rapidly disappearing indigenous structures: mule barns, field churches, cotton gins, tenant houses, and railroad stations. 75 illustrations.

Contemporary Southern Men Fiction Writers

Author : Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810831957
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Southern Men Fiction Writers written by Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully annotated bibliography lists sources of criticism for thirty-nine Southern male authors, each of whom has published at least one significant book of fiction between 1970 and 1994.

The Mississippi Quarterly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Wolf Whistle

Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 156512913X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Wolf Whistle written by Lewis Nordan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2003-10-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALA Notable Book; 1994 Mississippi Writers Award for Fiction; 1994 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In WOLF WHISTLE, Lewis Nordan unleashes the hellhounds of his prodigious imagination on one of the most notorious racial killings of the century, the Emmett Till murder. Soon we're on a magical mystery tour of the Southern psyche of the mid-1950s and the dawning of guilt and recognition in a whole generation of white Southerners. "An immense and wall-shattering display of talent. WOLF WHISTLE will help usher Lewis Nordan into the Hall of Fame of American Letters."--Randall Kenan, The Nation.

The Best Novels of the Nineties

Author : Linda Parent Lesher
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476603898
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Best Novels of the Nineties written by Linda Parent Lesher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader’s guide provides uniquely organized and up-to-date information on the most important and enjoyable contemporary English-language novels. Offering critically substantiated reading recommendations, careful cross-referencing, and extensive indexing, this book is appropriate for both the weekend reader looking for the best new mystery and the full-time graduate student hoping to survey the latest in magical realism. More than 1,000 titles are included, each entry citing major reviews and giving a brief description for each book.