New stories from the South
Subtitle: the year's best, 1999
By: edited by Shannon Ravenel ; with a preface by Tony Earley
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781565122475
Subjects: Romans; Social life and customs; Nouvelles américaines; Moeurs et coutumes; American Short stories; American fiction; Fiction
Description: Twenty stories from the South. In Tom Franklin's Poachers, a game warden goes after them, in Clyde Edgerton's Lunch at the Piccadilly a family must convince an old woman she can no longer drive, and Ingrid Hill's Pagan Babies is on an abused child.
Table of contents: title: Birdland  -- Michael Knight; title: Fla. boys  -- Heather Sellers; title: Lunch at the Piccadilly  -- Clyde Edgerton; title: Those deep elm Brown's ferry blues  -- William Gay; title: Missy  -- Richard Bausch; title: Caulk  -- George Singleton; title: Borrowed hearts  -- Rick DeMarinis; title: The human side of instrumental transcommunication  -- Wendy Brenner; title: Pagan babies  -- Ingrid Hill; title: Leaving Venice, Florida  -- Richard Schmitt; title: Storytelling  -- Mary Gordon; title: Krista had a treble clef rose  -- Mary Clyde; title: Booker T's coming home  -- Laura Payne Butler; title: Beyond the point  -- Michael Erard; title: Miracle boy  -- Pinckney Benedict; title: Neighborhood  -- Kurt Rheinheimer; title: Little bitty pretty one  -- Andrew Alexander; title: Name of love  -- Janice Daugharty; title: Quill  -- Tony Earley; title: Poachers -- Tom Franklin.