Deborah Knott may have lost the district election, but a bigoted judge’s sudden death–and some old-fashioned political horse trading–have won her a governor’s appointment. True to Southern form, her swearing-in is followed by a raucous reception that brings out...
Wonderfully funny and also deeply touching, I Am One of You Forever is the story of a young boy’s coming of age. Set in the hills and hollows of western North Carolina in the years around World War II,...
Now in her mid-fifties, Kate Vaiden recalls her early life growing up, after the violent death of her parents, an orphan in small towns in North Carolina and Virginia in the 1930s and 1940s
Set in Thalia, Texas, the small town that McMurtry literally put on the map when he wrote “The Last Picture Show,” “Duane’s Depressed” follows those of the characters who have survived into their twilight years. McMurtry brings the Thalia...
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third...
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