A collection of short stories, selected by the South's most venerable writers who are all affiliated with the Fellowship of Southern Writers, celebrates the distinctness of the Southern experience, and features writers as Doris Betts, Barry Hannah, William Henry Lewis, and others.
A collection of short stories, selected by the South's most venerable writers who are all affiliated with the Fellowship of Southern Writers, celebrat...
This volume collects 19 stories self-selected by its contributors, the Fellowship of Southern Writers. It includes works by Madison Smartt Bell, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, Ellen Douglas, Shelby Foote, George Garrett, Allan Gurganus, Barry Hannah and Elizabeth Spencer, among others. All are affiliated with the Fellowship which was organized in 1989 under the inspiration of the late Cleanth Brooks for the purpose of encouraging and honouring excellence in southern letters. Each piece celebrates the distinctness of the southern experience, giving expression in story form to a singular episode...
This volume collects 19 stories self-selected by its contributors, the Fellowship of Southern Writers. It includes works by Madison Smartt Bell, Doris...
Stephen Goodwin's second novel is an emblematic tale of the sixties, of a sophisticated couple going back to the land. The restlessness that compels Anna and Steadman to move from the city to a small mountain farm in Virginia is brought into high relief by the cycles of the natural world, and by the arrival of Anna's demonic twin sister. Goodwin's prose, by turns stark and pastoral, outlines these struggles while leavening them with self-effacing humor and beauty. Peopled with hippies and mountain folk, artists and farmers both organic and traditional, not to mention an unforgettable...
Stephen Goodwin's second novel is an emblematic tale of the sixties, of a sophisticated couple going back to the land. The restlessness that compel...
Bawdy and sometimes horrifying, hilarious on the way to being tragic, Raymond Andrews's Muskhogean County novels tell of black life in the Deep South from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the 1960s, from the days of mules and white men with bullwhips to the moment when the pendulum began to swing.
Andrews's first novel, "Appalachee Red," is one of hard labor in the midday sun and sweet jukebox nights, of howling passion and gunpoint negotiations, of a mean white sheriff and of the enormous red-skinned black man who changed it all.
Bawdy and sometimes horrifying, hilarious on the way to being tragic, Raymond Andrews's Muskhogean County novels tell of black life in the Deep Sou...
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Edition features 73 works--many of them new to this edition--by 69 authors, offering a broad collection of short stories with the most thoughtful annotations and apparatus on the market. With a new "Authors in Depth" feature, an extensive Reviews and Commentaries section, and expanded coverage of Writers on Writing, the Shorter Eighth Edition provides a wealth of criticism of key works and authors, as well as the opportunity to look deeper into the craft of fiction.
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter Edition features 73 works--many of them new to this edition--by 69 authors, offering a broad c...