New stories from the South : the year's best, 1991 / edited by Shannon Ravenel.

Other author Ravenel, Shannon.
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991.
Descriptionx, 247 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Preface / by Shannon Ravenel -- Cousin Aubrey / Peter Taylor -- The arabesque / Barbara Hudson -- Intensive care / Lee Smith -- The screened porch / Susan Starr Richards -- Relic / Robert Olen Butler -- With jazz / Bobbie Ann Mason -- A life or death matter / Elizabeth Hunnewell -- Big bad love / Larry Brown -- South of Kittatinny / Hilding Johnson -- The birds for Christmas / Mark Richard -- Poinsett's bridge / Robert Morgan -- Waiting for hard times to end / Jill McCorkle -- Black cat bone / Thomas Phillips Brewer -- In the loyal mountains / Rick Bass -- This is not the picture show / Nanci Kincaid -- His final mother / Reynolds Price.
Abstract This sixth annual anthology includes 16 Southern storytellers such as Peter Taylor, Reynolds Price, Jill McCorkle, and Bobbie Ann Mason. The stories first appeared last year in such magazines as Story and The New Yorker. A Vietnamese refugee, a mentally-ill mother, a wayward sister, scenes in hospital rooms and at bus stops are contrasted with more traditional tales. ISBN 0-945575-82-3 (pbk.): $9.95.
Digital Bookplate Bookplate for Catherine Billingsley
Acquisitions source Joyner General Stacks copy Gift of Catherine Billingsley.
Genre/formFiction.
LCCN 91209223
ISBN0945575823
ISBN9780945575825

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS551 .N49 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold