Briefly Noted: Music of the Swamp
Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fathers and sons
ISBN :
Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fathers and sons
ISBN :
Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 1992-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1565127838
“This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page.” —Southern Living Lewis Nordan’s fiction invents its own world--always populated by madly heroic misfits. In Music of the Swamp, he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy’s utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father--a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin’s world with dazzling clarity: the smells, the tastes, and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar, somewhat bizarre, Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: “The Delta is filled up with death”; but he also finds an endless supply of hope. An ALA Notable Book Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award
Author : Kristyn Crow
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0060839511
Splish splash rumba-rumba bim bam boom! It's bedtime at the swamp—except somebody's not ready. Somebody's still splashing in the water and the mud. Is there a monster on the loose? Kristyn Crow has taken every child's worst nightmare and transformed it into a frolic through swampland. With funny illustrations and a catchy refrain, this story won't scare little monster too much before bedtime.
Author : David C. Lion
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Swamp ecology
ISBN : 9780516253497
Describes the physical characteristics of a swamp and teaches about many of the plants and animals that live there.
Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 1996-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1565128435
Introduction by Richard Howorth and foreword by the author. The incomparable Lewis Nordan's first two collections of short fiction--WELCOME TO THE ARROW-CATCHER FAIR and THE ALL-GIRL FOOTBALL TEAM--originally published in 1983 and 1986, have long been out of print in all editions. Collectors' items, these two books are now almost impossible for Nordan fans to find anywhere.To rectify that, Algonquin is delighted to announce a selection of fifteen of the best stories from the two books, newly arranged and introduced by fellow Mississippian, bookseller Richard Howorth, and with a foreword by the author. Critics have called Lewis Nordan's fiction "extraordinary" and "marvelous" and "stunning" and "scorching" and "story-telling genius." The selected stories show that genius in the making. "Characters that people the South hobble and dance across the pages of his short stories."--United Press International; "Delightfully eccentric situations and colorful language add up to a work that is even stronger than WOLF WHISTLE."--Library Journal.
Author : Davide Calì
Publisher : Eerdmans Books For Young Readers
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780802854865
"Boris, a swamp creature who was adopted by human parents, starts to question where he truly belongs"--
Author : H.A. Poff
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1441575723
Orphaned at the age of five months, Lula’s search for her identity takes her from the banks of the Okefenokee Swamp to the Georgia state capital. Along the way Lula finds love and deception that ultimately sends her to prison’s death row to be the first woman executed in that state. In the final desperate hours Father Mc Connor, the prison Priest, discovers a little known law that grants her a stay of execution. During the unraveling of the conspiracy plot Lula learns that she is a French citizen. Lula and her husband David travel to France. They arrive just ahead of the German invasion. David is taken out of the country, but Lula must remain. She takes charge of an exclusive vineyard during the occupation and becomes a vital link in the underground’s effort to smuggle Allied flyers through enemy lines to safety.
Author : Robert W. Wells
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Stewart H. Holbrook
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Generals
ISBN : 1402757034
A biography of Francis Marion, the American general who organized a guerrilla band to fight the British in South Carolina during the Revolution.
Author : Kirstin L. Squint
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807173517
Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies expands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. Although the physical environments that form its central subjects are scattered throughout the southeastern United States—the Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississippi River delta, the Everglades, and the Great Dismal Swamp—this evocative collection challenges fixed notions of place and foregrounds the ways in which ecosystems shape cultures and creations on both local and global scales. Across seventeen scholarly essays, along with a critical introduction and afterword, Swamp Souths introduces new frameworks for thinking about swamps in the South and beyond, with an emphasis on subjects including Indigenous studies, ecocriticism, intersectional feminism, and the tropical sublime. The volume analyzes canonical writers such as William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty, but it also investigates contemporary literary works by Randall Kenan and Karen Russell, the films Beasts of the Southern Wild and My Louisiana Love, and music ranging from swamp rock and zydeco to Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade. Navigating a complex assemblage of places and ecosystems, the contributors argue with passion and critical rigor for considering anew the literary and cultural work that swamps do. This dynamic collection of scholarship proves that swampy approaches to southern spaces possess increased relevance in an era of climate change and political crisis.