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Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere of 1900--a time when many Americans were looking for signs foretelling the end of the world--Feather Crowns is the story of a young woman...
By the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, CHILD OF GOD is a taut, chilling novel that plumbs the depths of human degradation. Lester Ballard, a violent, so...
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely...
In 1942, Clipper Bradwin, a promising young army officer from a wealthy family, plans to marry a socially prominent heiress. The lavish ceremony, which takes place at an e...
The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.
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Потомок новоорлеанского плантатора по имени Ланселот совершает зловещее и загадочное убийство. И хотя мотив вроде ясен — ведь жертвами пали жена главного героя и ее любовн...
Рассказы этой книги дают представление о творческой эволюции и о писательской манере Юдоры Уэлти (1909-2001), для которой характерно сочетание лиризма и иронии, комическог...
"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner...
Back in print at last, the nine beautifully crafted tales in Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories display Doris Betts at the top of her form: compassionate, witty...
It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn’t rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the birds...
For bank teller Charlie Colquitt, it was just another Saturday. For Hobe Hicklin, an ex-con with nothing to lose, it was just another score. For Hobe's drug-addled, sex-cr...
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four me...
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hi...
Inspired with the essence of Mary Hood's native South and spiced with intrigue and the dark side of human nature, this collection of stories offers the drama, humor, and h...
Mary Hood's fictional world is a world where fear, anger, longing—sometimes worse—lie just below the surface of a pleasant summer afternoon or a Sunday church service.
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Like Tobacco Road, this novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia. Exhorted by their patriarch Ty Ty, the Waldens ruin their land by diggi...
Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction; finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction. “These short stories approach their subjects fro...
Set in a small town in Mississippi, this story focuses on the relationship between Joe Ransom, an aimless drunk and gambler whose job keeps him in whisky and cig...
После трагедии, потрясшей его семью, Джек Макколл вместе с маленькой дочерью уезжает в Европу, в Рим, где, как ему кажется, он сможет начать спокойную жизнь, залечить серд...
Маленький городок в Оклахоме, 60-е годы. В давнем конфликте противостоят друг другу банды подростков — грязеры и вобы. Первое правило грязеров — по одному не ходить, второ...
