Voices of the South – serie
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21 produkter
Band of Angels
A Novel
Häftad, 1994
445 kr
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Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this powerfully dramatic novel. At her father's death Amantha learns that her mother was a slave and that she, too, is to be sold into servitude. What follows is a vast …
Voice at the Back Door
A Novel
Häftad, 1994
380 kr
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In the mid-1950s, the town of Lacey in the Mississippi hill country is a place where the lives of blacks and whites, though seemingly separate, are in fact historically and inevitably intertwined. When Lacey's fair-haired boy, Duncan Harper, is appointed interim sheriff, he makes public his private …
Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed
A Novel
Av Lee Smith
Häftad, 1994
380 kr
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That whole summer is as clear and as still in my head as the corsage under the glass bell in Mrs. Tate's parlor. Even now, summers and summers since, I can remember everything. I remember the day summer started.So begins Lee Smith's disarming first novel, written while she was an undergraduate at …
Last of the Southern Girls
A Novel
Häftad, 1994
332 kr
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Carol Hollywell is beautiful, smart, elegant, and charming. A debutante from De Soto Point, Arkansas, and a recent graduate of Ole Miss, she is heir to a good southern name and a small southern fortune. She knows what she wants and, more important, knows how to get it. She is, in other words, the …
Salt Line
A Novel
Häftad, 1995
364 kr
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Spencer's refined, sensuous writing and laser insights inform this novel, as extraordinary as her other works. - Publishers WeeklyAt a certain point approaching the Mississippi coast, the air fills with the salt smell of the Gulf of Mexico. For all of the characters in Elizabeth Spencer's …
Brother to Dragons
A Tale in Verse and Voices
Häftad, 1996
299 kr
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The significantly revised version of Brother to Dragons appeared in 1979, twenty-six years after the original. It is, Warren wrote, ""in some important senses, a new work."" Told in the distinct voices of characters long dead and now gathered at an unspecified place and time, the poem recalls …
Flight
A Novel
Av Walter White
Häftad, 1998
413 kr
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Published amid controversy in 1926, Flight focuses on the dilemma of Mimi Daquin, a light-complexioned African American woman who passes, for a time, as white. In the New Orleans of her birth, Mimi never encountered the hierarchies of skin colour that existed elsewhere. But when her family moves to …
Hills Beyond
A Novel
Av Thomas Wolfe
Häftad, 2000
332 kr
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The third and last book culled from the mountain of manuscript Thomas Wolfe left behind, The Hills Beyond ""contains some of his best, and certainly his most mature, work"" - New York Times Book Review. The unfinished novel from which this collection of sketches, stories, and novellas takes its …
Glass House
A Novel
Häftad, 2001
380 kr
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When Thea Tamborella returns to New Orleans after a ten-year absence, she finds a city gripped by fear. The privileged white socialites of her private-school days pack guns to fancy dinner parties and spend their free time in paramilitary patrols. The black gardeners, maids, and cooks who work days …
Miss Undine's Living Room
A Novel
Av James Wilcox
Häftad, 2001
380 kr
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A candidate for the office of Superintendent of Streets, Parks, and Garbage, middle-aged matron Olive Mackie of Tula Springs, Louisiana, finds her political aspirations thwarted when her ninety-one-year-old Great Uncle L.D. comes under suspicion for murder. Police don't believe that L.D.'s …
Landscapes of the Heart
A Memoir
Häftad, 2003
351 kr
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With charm and vivid detail, the acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Spencer acquaints readers with the places and people, the pleasures and heartaches, she has known in her life. From her idyllic childhood in small-town Mississippi onward, a questioning spirit and voracity for reading and writing shape …
Modern Baptists
A Novel
Av James Wilcox
Häftad, 2006
364 kr
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Universally and repeatedly praised ever since it first appeared in 1983, Modern Baptists is the book that launched novelist James Wilcox's career and debuted the endearingly daft community of Tula Springs, Louisiana. It's the tale of Bobby Pickens, assistant manager of Sonny Boy Bargain Store, who …
Gaudy Place
A Novel
Häftad, 1994
441 kr
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Fred Chappell's The Gaudy Place is perhaps the first novel to depict the society of the street people of the New South and their relationship to the middle class. For its wry portrayal of displacement and injustice this novel was awarded the Sir Walter Raleigh Prize.The street-smart teenager Arkie …
Slow Poison
A Novel
Häftad, 1998
233 kr
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Rory Cade is summoned home from her book tour in New York by the housekeeper's cryptic message: Miss Cade passing. On the turbulent flight back to south Louisiana, Rory finds herself relating her family's past and its particular, poisonous brew of money, passion, infidelity, alcohol, religion, and …
View from Pompey's Head
A Novel
Häftad, 1998
505 kr
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Sweet, sleepy - beautiful - old Pompey's Head, South Carolina. Anson Page thought he'd ground it out of his life for good. Now a Manhattan lawyer representing a large publishing house, he's returning to his hometown after fifteen years to investigate the mystery surrounding one of his client's …
World Enough and Time
A Novel
Häftad, 1999
467 kr
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In the admixture of wilderness and elegant society that was 1826 Kentucky, Jeremiah Beaumont, a brilliant, imaginative lawyer, stood trial for murdering his benefactor and father figure, the politician Colonel Cassius Fort. Now all the documents are in hand to reconstruct Beaumont's life story - …
North Gladiola
A Novel
Av James Wilcox
Häftad, 2000
441 kr
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Ethyl Mae Coco's rambling Victorian home on North Gladiola - the Main Street of Tula Springs, Louisiana - is the only residence left at the business end of town, but it's a hotbed for chaotic comedy. Mrs. Coco, aged fifty-seven and feeling somewhat left behind herself, directs her considerable …
Ragged Way People Fall Out of Love
A Novel
Häftad, 2002
377 kr
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Molly Hanner's marriage to William is slowly unraveling, and the pulls of entropy this exerts upon them and their three children painfully instruct Molly in the many ways people barely miss loving each other. But divorce is only a catalyst in Molly's life. Amazed at the weight of her family's hurt …
Sweetbitter
A Novel
Häftad, 2003
249 kr
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Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award""Reginald Gibbons's first novel takes place in east Texas in 1910 during the time of white rule, not by law but by lynch mob. Amid the suffocating racism and fear, half-Choctaw, half-white Reuben Sweetbitter and Martha Clarke, a white woman, fall in love. . . …
Flood
A Novel
Häftad, 2003
505 kr
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Originally published in 1963, this powerful novel spools a rewarding, dramatic storyline while it probes the deeper philosophical search for self-definition in modern life and the symbolic demise of the agrarian South from technological progress. Flood begins with the arrival of two men in a small …
Guest of a Sinner
A Novel
Av James Wilcox
Häftad, 2004
441 kr
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It is 22 cats that drive the dazzlingly handsome Eric Thorsen to distraction and into the apartment - if not immediately the arms - of Wanda Skopinski, the rather mousy woman he meets at church when she thrusts a lesbian romance novel upon him. The stench from downstairs drives him from both his …
