A miracle of catfish
Subtitle: a novel in progress
By: Larry Brown
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9781565125360
Subjects: Fatherhood -- Fiction; Mississippi -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "Set in the low hills just outside Oxford, Mississippi ... is the story of one year in the lives of four men and one little boy. ... There is Cortez Sharp, a farmer with a terrible secret and a newly dug pond he is stocking with catfish. Tommy Bright, from Arkansas, has a fish-stocking business he's all but gambled away. Cleve, a black neighbor down the road, has a daughter who's taken up with a man so unworthy he doesn't deserve to live. Little Jimmy, whose daddy gave him a go-kart, has the bad luck to have been born to that daddy, a man beyond redemption. And then there's Ursula, the mother of all catfish, who has her own secret life near the bottom of Cortez's pond."--Publisher's description.
Notes: "A Shannon Ravenel Book."