Author: River Rat PhippsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Old Man River and the Skeeters I've Met
Author: River Rat PhippsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Old Man's River
Author: Judy L. RennieForest and Stream
Author: Shadow Country
Author: Peter MatthiessenPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1588368246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • “Altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature.”—Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone—Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic about Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson on the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century—were originally conceived as one vast, mysterious novel. Now, in this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has marvelously distilled a monumental work while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters with brilliant rewriting throughout. Praise for Shadow Country “Magnificent . . . breathtaking . . . Finally now we have [this three-part saga] welded like a bell, and with Watson’s song the last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate.”—Los Angeles Times “Peter Matthiessen has done great things with the Watson trilogy. It’s the story of our continent, both land and people, and his writing does every justice to the blood fury of his themes.”—Don DeLillo “The fiction of Peter Matthiessen is the reason a lot of people in my generation decided to be writers. No doubt about it. Shadow Country lives up to anyone’s highest expectations for great writing.” —Richard Ford “Shadow Country, Matthiessen’s distillation of the earlier Watson saga, represents his original vision. It is the quintessence of his lifelong concerns, and a great legacy.”—W. S. Merwin “[An] epic masterpiece . . . a great American novel.”—The Miami Herald
Mitch Miller
Author: Edgar Lee MastersPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"Mitch Miller" is an absorbing work about two boys growing up in Illinois in the early 1900s. It follows their story as they wander around places from Lincoln's past while simultaneously endeavoring to relive the adventures of Tom Sawyer, a famous character in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain.
The Janus Project
Author: Brad AndersonPublisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1432753886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Army veteran and restaurant owner John Callan was at the wrong place at absolutely the worst time. And he paid for it with the lives of his wife and daughter. His attempt at revenge on Morgan Ropp, the country’s most lethal criminal, lands him in a special, top secret section of the Federal Witness Security Program: the Janus Project. Life under Janus is supposed to be the safest available for protected witnesses – and it is for Callan until Morgan escapes from prison and finds out where – and when – Callan is hiding. The Janus Project reveals the struggle of survival when the need for revenge pushes us to the brink of disaster. This character-driven novel highlights the dichotomy of a man torn between the fictional life that has been implanted in his new reality and the depth of his instincts that drive him within his innermost soul. Which reality will win? It’s a matter of time.
Henry De Marsan's New Comic and Sentimental Singer's Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American ballads and songs
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Help
Author: Kathryn StockettPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425245136
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Original publication and copyright date: 2009.
The Yearling
Author: Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442441003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
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.
Killing Mister Watson
Author: Peter MatthiessenPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9781860464171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
By the author of The Snow Leopard, The Tree Where Man Was Born and On the River Styx, this novel is based around the circumstances of the death of a man in Florida 1910, who had terrorized his community in the Florida Everglades. It explores whether it was murder, exorcism or sacrifice.