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Swinging Through Dixie
Novellas and Stories
Av Leon Rooke
E-bok, 2016
223 kr
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The two novellas and three short stories in this new collection by the critically-acclaimed, North Carolina-born author Leon Rooke are united by place and mood. Set largely in the post-WWII American South, peopled by Watermelon Queens and ten-year-old business men, these joyful, touching, …
Good Baby
A Novel
Av Leon Rooke
E-bok, 2017
223 kr
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During the night of a storm, an Appalachian girl delivers a baby and disappears. Next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home. While Turner carries out his quest, the child''s father, Truman, with teeth as rotten as his soul, drives his …
Hitting the Charts
Selected Stories
Av Leon Rooke
E-bok, 2006
274 kr
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According to Russell Banks, North Carolina ex-pat Leon Rooke''s work charts "what the short story form can and cannot do, for he works out there in the terra incognita mapping limits." Hitting the Charts , a nineteen story Best-Of compilation, offers stories as free from constraint as a Monk solo, …
Swinging Through Dixie
Novellas and Stories
Av Leon Rooke
Häftad, 2016
154 kr
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"Rooke is an original...Deliberately eccentric ...deliciously inventive, always rewarding."--The Washington Post The two novellas and three short stories in this new collection by the critically-acclaimed, North Carolina-born author Leon Rooke are united by place and mood. Set largely in the …
Good Baby
A Novel
Av Leon Rooke
Häftad, 2017
159 kr
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"Grim and raw and hilarious."--The New York Times During the night of a storm, an Appalachian girl delivers a baby and disappears. Next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home. While Turner carries out his quest, the child's father, …
Hitting the Charts
Selected Stories
Av Leon Rooke
Häftad, 2006
287 kr
Tillfälligt slut
According to Russell Banks, North Carolina ex-pat Leon Rooke's work charts "what the short story form can and cannot do, for he works out there in the terra incognita mapping limits." Hitting the Charts, a nineteen story Best-Of compilation, offers stories as free from constraint as a Monk solo, …
