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Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679721642
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair written by Lewis Nordan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affection, revulsion, madness and eccentricity form the subjects for nine stories
Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565128435
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)
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.
Author : Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810831957
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (319 download)
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.
Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565120167
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)
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
Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780394757018
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The All-girl Football Team written by Lewis Nordan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara A. Baker
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817356819
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
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.”
Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 9781565121829
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (218 download)
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
Author : John Caldwell Guilds
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557285256
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (852 download)
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.
Author : Jan Nordby Gretlund
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611172640
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Still in Print written by Jan Nordby Gretlund and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Still in Print, eighteen Southern novels published since 1997 fall under the careful scrutiny of an international cast of accomplished literary critics to identify the very best of recent writings in the genre. These essays highlight the praiseworthy efforts of a pantheon of novelists celebrating and challenging regionality, unearthing manifestations of the past in the present, and looking to the future with wit and healthy skepticism. Organized around shared themes of history, place, humor, and malaise, the novels discussed here interrogate Southern culture and explore the region's promise for the future. Four novels reconsider the Civil War and its aftermath as Charles Frazier, Kaye Gibbons, Josephine Humphreys, and Pam Durban revisit the past and add fresh insights to contemporary discussions of race and gender through their excursions into history. The novels by Steve Yarbrough, Larry Brown, Chris Offutt, Barry Hannah, and James Lee Burke demonstrate a keen sense of place, rooted in a South marked by fundamentalism, poverty, violence, and rampant prejudice but still capable of promise for some unseen future. The comic fiction of George Singleton, Clyde Edgerton, James Wilcox, Donald Harington, and Lewis Nordan shows how Southern humor still encompasses customs and speech reflected in concrete places. Ron Rash, Richard Ford, and Cormac McCarthy probe the depths of human existence, often with disturbing results, as they write about protagonists cut off from their own humanity and desperate to reconnect with the human race. Diverse in content but unified in genre, these particular novels have been nominated by the contributors to Still in Print for long-term survival as among the best modern representations of the Southern novel.
Author : W. Ralph Eubanks
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604699582
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)
Download or read book A Place Like Mississippi written by W. Ralph Eubanks and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir In A Place Like Mississippi,award-winning author and Mississippi native W. Ralph Eubanks treats us to a literary tour of the evocative landscapes that have inspired writers in every era. From Faulkner to Wright, Welty to Trethewey, Mississippi has been both a backdrop and a central character in some of the most compelling prose and poetry of modern literature. The journey unfolds on a winding path, touching the muddy Delta, the rolling Hill Country, down to the Gulf Coast, and all points between. In every corner of the state lie the settings that informed hundreds of iconic works. Immersing us in these spaces, Eubanks helps us understand that Mississippi is not only a state but a state of mind. Or as Faulkner is said to have observed, “To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.”
Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565127838
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)
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
Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565121996
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)
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
Author : Ted Ownby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496811577
Total Pages : 2548 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book The Mississippi Encyclopedia written by Ted Ownby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 2548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.
Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565128869
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)
Download or read book The Sharpshooter Blues written by Lewis Nordan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1997-01-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALA Notable Book; Mississippi Arts and Letters Fiction Award. Lewis Nordan's remarkable third novel, THE SHARPSHOOTER BLUES, is in part a meditation on America's love affair with blue-steel barrels and soft-tip bullets, and in part a look at the violence and loss that ensue when the guns come out to play one day in a small town. Just as his award-winning WOF WHISTLE illuminated the complexity of racism, Nordan's new novel shines the brilliant flash of gunfire on love--between fathers and sons, between husbands and wives, between gay lovers, and between friends. At its heart is Hydro Raney, a boy who's never grown up, a boy who wouldn't hurt a soul. In THE SHARPSHOOTER BLUES, Nordan once again makes us laugh; then our helpless laughter turns first into weeping and then into wonder. "A comedy at least half as divine--and dark--as Dante's own . . . a flat-out tour de force."--Lee K. Abbott, Miami Herald; "This is not just a good book, this is a marvelous book."-The Village Voice.
Author : Jan Nordby Gretlund
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570033124
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (331 download)
Download or read book The Southern State of Mind written by Jan Nordby Gretlund and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkably removed from the devotional, certifying, and celebratory view of the South that has dominated books of this genre, The Southern State of Mind addresses the question of whether inherited Southern values, problems, and contradictions have survived the onslaught of modernization."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : M. Thomas Inge
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469616645
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture written by M. Thomas Inge and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new writers draw upon and reshape previous traditions, southern literature has broadened and deepened its connections not just to the American literary mainstream but also to world literatures--a development thoughtfully explored in the essays here. Greatly expanding the content of the literature section in the original Encyclopedia, this volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality. Most striking is the fivefold increase in the number of biographical entries, which introduce southern novelists, playwrights, poets, and critics. Special attention is given to contemporary writers and other individuals who have not been widely covered in previous scholarship.
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617035135
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (351 download)
Download or read book The southern writers quiz book written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
