| Other author/creator | Hurston, Zora Neale. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpJcFFffwHcxrgmp94Xh3 |
| Other author/creator | Morgan, Elizabeth Seydel, 1939- |
| Other author/creator | Ansa, Tina McElroy. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJy8y4cdCTh8CkHG8MFqcP |
| Other author/creator | Craddock, Charles Egbert, 1850-1922. |
| Other author/creator | Betts, Doris. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJfRCHhwQhpkFWXRk8mjmd |
| Other author/creator | Gilchrist, Ellen, 1935-2024 |
| Other author/creator | Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001. |
| Other author/creator | Hood, Mary. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdx9DgPx9jBMmPXk9Btrq |
| Other author/creator | Jones, Gayl. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpV6JpYWgrcG63p99YQMP |
| Other author/creator | Glasgow, Ellen, 1873-1945. |
| Other author/creator | Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019. |
| Other author/creator | Mason, Bobbie Ann. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwRPDKcRmC89rdpYTmmVC |
| Other author/creator | O'Connor, Flannery. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrKTt8GYxDH88WXm87yh3 |
| Other author/creator | Walker, Alice, 1944- |
| Other author/creator | Smith, Lee, 1944- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvHhdtXTw6WrrPjbGJJjC |
| Other author/creator | Allison, Dorothy, 1949-2024. |
| Other author/creator | Brown, Mary Ward. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmhJthbBVr9gmqQdYP4v3 |
| Other author/creator | Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980. |
| Other author/creator | Gibson, Margaret, 1944- |
| Other author/creator | Cox, Elizabeth, 1942- |
| Other author/creator | Mee, Susie, 1938- |
| Other author/creator | Betts, Doris, autographer. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJfRCHhwQhpkFWXRk8mjmd |
| Other author/creator | Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019, autographer. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJyRxwBvPG9fcpKWY7CCwC |
| Other author/creator | Smith, Lee, 1944- autographer. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvHhdtXTw6WrrPjbGJJjC |
| Contents |
Growing up. Isis / Zora Neale Hurston -- Economics / Elizabeth Seydel Morgan -- Sarah / Tina McElroy Ansa -- Kinfolk and courtship. Star in the valley / Mary Noailles Murfree -- The ugliest pilgrim / Doris Betts -- Music / Ellen Gilchrist -- The pleasures and miseries of marriage. The wide net / Eudora Welty -- After Moore / Mary Hood -- White rat / Gayl Jones -- The weight of the past. Dare's gift / Ellen Glasgow -- First dark / Elizabeth Spencer -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Settings, customs, and artifacts. Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Yellow ribbons / Susie Mee -- Washed in the blood. Tongues of fire / Lee Smith -- Gospel song / Dorothy Allison -- A new life / Mary Ward Brown -- Passing on. The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- And with a vengeance / Margaret Gibson -- The third of July / Elizabeth Cox. |
| Abstract |
Stories by Southern women. In Tina McElroy Ansa's Sarah, two girls pretend they are their parents making love, while Lee Smith's Tongues of Fire is a portrait of local manners, as when the narrator explains her mother's incessant chatter to fill a void in a conversation, "This was another of Mama's rules: A lady never lets a silence fall." |
| Local note | Joyner Rare copy has the following autographs: Doris Betts on page 86, Elizabeth Spencer on page 258, and Lee Smith on page 362, |
| General note | "A Harvest original." |
| Digital Bookplate |
Bookplate for Catherine Billingsley |
| Other forms | Also issued online. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy Gift of Catherine Billingsley, 9/18/2015 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Downhome. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt, Brace & Co., ©1995 |
| Genre/form | short stories. |
| Genre/form | Short stories. |
| Genre/form | Domestic fiction. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Short stories. |
| Genre/form | Short stories. |
| Genre/form | Domestic fiction. |
| LCCN | 95018978 |
| ISBN | 0156001217 |
| ISBN | 9780156001212 |