Contents: The goophered grapevine.--Po' Sandy.--Mars Jeem's nightmare.--The conjurer's revenge.--Sis' Becky's pickaninny.--The gray wolf's ha'nt.--Hot-Foot Hannibal. Note these stories were written...
Southern States
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Auteur:Chesnutt, Charles W.Sommaire: - Auteur:Walker, AndersSommaire:
A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker investigates how prominent...
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Auteur:Rooke, LeonSommaire:The two novellas and three short stories in this new collection by Governor General's Award winner Leon Rooke are united by place and mood. The title novella, set in a southern post-WWII American town'a kind of 'comic Winesburg, Ohio,'...
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Auteur:Quarles, AngelaSommaire:Jack the Ripper might be in town. But is marriage more terrifying? In an alternate Deep South in 1890, society reporter Adele de la Pointe wants to make her own way in the world, despite her family’s pressure to become a society wife....
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Auteur:Sledge, John S., Edgar, WalterSommaire:Southern Bound represents a running conversation on books, writers and literary travel written for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995 to 2011 by John S. Sledge. The collection includes more than 100 of the best pieces culled...
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Auteur:Metcalfe, GaydenSommaire:Discusses the joys and trials of being the daughter of a demanding mother whose goal is to raise children with good manners and proper religion.
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Auteur:Madden, EdSommaire:Selected by Afaa Weaver as the third annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Signals is the first book-length collection from Ed Madden. Deeply rooted in the recognizable landscapes and legacies of the American South,...
- Auteur:Metz, AmySommaire:
This is not your average Southern town. With a hint of mystery and a lot of laughs, you'll catch a glimpse of everyday life in Goose Pimple Junction in this short story compilation. Short & Tall Tales occurs chronologically between...
- Auteur:Hooper, Kay.Sommaire:
Beautiful, successful, blonde women are being murdered in a small, peaceful town where such horrible atrocities are not supposed to happen. Police Chief Rafe Sullivan knows he has to find the killer fast, but he doesn't know where...
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Auteur:Lightman, Alan P.Sommaire:From the acclaimed author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams comes a lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s: the music and the racism, the early days of the movies, and a powerful grandfather whose...
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Auteur:Lee, Robert E.Sommaire:Robert E. Lee, the famed Confederate forces commander and icon of the South, is a towering figure in U.S. and military history. The son of a famed Revolutionary War officer, his path to greatness included graduating at the top of his...
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Auteur:Blais, Marie-Claire, Spencer, NigelSommaire:With this astounding fourth novel in her ongoing series of contemporary masterpieces (These Festive Nights, Thunder and Light, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction, and Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom), Marie-Claire Blais invites us...
- Auteur:Edgerton, ClydeSommaire:
Beginning with an engagement announcement and ending with the birth of a son, the author gives a charming and utterly convincing snapshot of the first few years of a modern Southern marriage.
- Auteur:Gurganus, AllanSommaire:
Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninety-nine-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most...
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This installment exhibits a fresh batch of immensely talented writers, all of whom exemplify the level of accomplishment that has kept this acclaimed series running strong since 1985. Comprising 20 stories, this rich and varied...
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The 19th publication of this annual anthology exhibits a collection of short fiction from award-winning Southern writers and rising stars.
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Auteur:Byrd, Olivia deBelleSommaire:While Olivia deBelle Byrd was repeating one of her many Southern stories for the umpteenth time, her long-suffering husband looked at her with glazed over eyes and said,“Why don’t you write this stuff down?” Thus was born Miss Hildreth...
- Auteur:Smith, LeeSommaire:
This collection of wise and wonderful short stories captures those extraordinary moments in everyday life when greatness and tragedy shimmer through the surface.
- Auteur:Grissom, KathleenSommaire:
«Comment aurais-je pu lui reprocher son incapacité d’aimer la partie de moi que je détestais moi-même?» 1824. À la mort de ses parents adoptifs, James s’évertue à cacher une partie de son histoire aux gens qui l’entourent, dont Caroline...
- Auteur:Grissom, KathleenSommaire:
À la fin du 18e siècle, en Virginie, un terrible secret plane sur une plantation de tabac. Ayant perdu ses parents irlandais lors de sa traversée de l’Atlantique, la petite Lavinia, âgée de sept ans, se retrouve domestique au domaine du...
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