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Author: Johny Odom Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises ISBN: 9781683196020 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 116
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He could not be sure if the form before him was a man or a beast because it had the characteristics of both. Chilling Tales beneath the China Berry Tree is a collection of scary stories as told by my grandmother to my cousins and me as we spent many summer days with her. The stories she told may not be entirely true, but she enjoyed telling them as much as we enjoyed hearing them. Part of growing up includes many innocent moments when one's mind can be drawn to another place and time where the supernatural is real. Granny's stories were told during those lazy days of summer. This book contains many of the stores that kept my cousins and me on the edge of our seats, and left us full of wonder and amazement. Experiencing summers in rural Alabama where I grew up was a blessing. Times were simpler then. People seemed not to be in such rush, and they enjoyed spending time with each other.
Author: Johnny Odom Publisher: ISBN: 9781947247673 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 116
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Chilling Tales Beneath the Chinaberry Tree: A Collection of Alabama Folklore and Ghost Stories is a selection of scary stories as told by my grandmother to my cousins and me as we spent many summer days with her. The stories she told may not be entirely true, but she enjoyed telling them as much as we enjoyed hearing them. Part of growing up includes many innocent moments when one's mind can be drawn to another place and time where the supernatural is real. Granny's stories were told during those lazy days of summer. This book contains many of the stores that kept my cousins and me on the edge of our seats, and left us full of wonder and amazement. Experiencing summers in rural Alabama where I grew up was a blessing. Times were simpler then. People seemed not to be in such rush, and they enjoyed spending time with each other.
Author: Alan Brown Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1467141674 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 160
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Known for antebellum mansions and sunny beaches, Alabama also claims an abundance of fascinating mysteries and legends. The White Thang is a Sasquatch-like creature that has terrorized Alabamians for generations. For a brief period in the 1980s, Needham gained national attention because of its "crying pecan tree." In 1854, a farmer named Orion Williamson simply vanished in a field in Selma. From the aquatic beast known as the Coosa River Monster to the story of the Leprechaun of Mobile, these stories have evolved over generations. Author Alan Brown presents some of the strangest stories from this collective tradition.
Author: Rodney Crowell Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307740978 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 274
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In a tender and uproarious memoir, singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of a dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood. The only child of a hard-drinking father and a holy-roller mother, acclaimed musician Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast. But despite a home life always threatening to burst into violence, Rodney fiercely loved his mother and idolized his blustering father, a frustrated musician who took him to see Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash perform. Set in 1950s Houston, a frontier-rough town with icehouses selling beer by the gallon on payday, pest infestations right out of a horror film, and the kind of freedom mischievous kids dream of, Chinaberry Sidewalks is Rodney's tribute to his parents and his remarkable youth. Full of the most satisfying kind of nostalgia, it is hardly recognizable as a celebrity memoir. Rather, it's a story of coming-of-age at a particular time, place, and station, crafted as well as the perfect song.
Author: James Still Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813133734 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 172
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Celebrated as the "Dean of Appalachian Literature," James Still has won the appreciation of audiences in Appalachia and beyond for more than seventy years. The author of the classics River of Earth (1940) and The Wolfpen Poems (1986), Still is known for his careful prose construction and for the poetry of his meticulous, rhythmic style. Upon his death, however, one manuscript remained unpublished. Still's friends, family, and fellow writer Silas House will now deliver this story to readers, having assembled and refined the manuscript to prepare it for publication. Chinaberry, named for the ranch that serves as the centerpiece of the story, is Still's last and perhaps greatest contribution to American literature. Chinaberry follows the adventures of a young boy as he travels to Texas from Alabama in search of work on a cotton farm. Upon arriving, he discovers the ranch of Anson and Lurie Winters, a young couple whose lives are defined by hard work, family, and a tragedy that haunts their past. Still's entrancing narrative centers on the boy's experience at the ranch under Anson's watchful eye and Lurie's doting care, highlighting the importance of home, whether it is defined by people or a place. In this celebration of the art of storytelling, Still captures a time and place that are gone forever and introduces the reader to an unforgettable cast of characters, illustrating the impact that one person can have on another. A combination of memoir and imagination, truth and fiction, Chinaberry is a work of art that leaves the reader in awe of Still's mastery of language and thankful for the lifetime of wisdom that manifests itself in his work.
Author: Patricia Highsmith Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393345661 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 465
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"Highsmith is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre...than are Doestoevsky, Faulkner and Camus."—Joan Smith, Los Angeles Times The Patricia Highsmith renaissance continues with Nothing That Meets the Eye, a brilliant collection of twenty-eight psychologically penetrating stories, a great majority of which are published for the first time in this collection. This volume spans almost fifty years of Highsmith's career and establishes her as a permanent member of our American literary canon, as attested by recent publication of two of these stories in The New Yorker and Harper's. The stories assembled in Nothing That Meets the Eye, written between 1938 and 1982, are vintage Highsmith: a gigolo-like psychopath preys on unfulfilled career women; a lonely spinster's fragile hold on reality is tethered to the bottle; an estranged postal worker invents homicidal fantasies about his coworkers. While some stories anticipate the diabolical narratives of the Ripley novels, others possess a Capra-like sweetness that forces us to see the author in a new light. From this new collection, a remarkable portrait of the American psyche at mid-century emerges, unforgettably distilled by the inimitable eye of Patricia Highsmith. A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Rave of 2002.
Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1442441003 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 525
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An American classic—and Pulitzer Prize–winning story—that shows the ultimate bond between child and pet. No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend. There has been a film and even a musical based on this moving story, a fine work of great American literature.
Author: Sally Wolff Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 0807158291 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 312
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From the heartbroken protagonist she depicted in her first published story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman," to the reflective widow she described in her last novel, The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty wrote realistically about the shadows and radiance of love. In a meticulous exploration of this theme, Sally Wolff combines new readings of Welty's fiction with contextual information and background drawn from a nineteen-year friendship with Welty. A common image in much of Welty's fiction, the rose has traditionally symbolized love in literature. Wolff argues that the dark rose-from the height of its brilliance to the end of its life-serves as an apt metaphor for the dichotomies Welty presents, equally suggestive of beauty and sadness, as well as the comic, tragic, and mysterious qualities of love. While some of Welty's characters seem autobiographical-a daughter remembering her parents' marriage or a broodingly hopeful member of a large family wedding-at times Welty analyzes from a distance the dynamics of successful and troubled loving relationships. Although Welty experienced love several times during her life, she never married, and Wolff argues that this vantage point allowed Welty to write from an objective perspective in her fiction about the varied dimensions of love. A Dark Rose explores several texts to examine Welty's nuanced and intricate portrayals of love. Though love in Welty's fiction fails, wears thin, and even faces death-it remains a vital force in her characters' lives.
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