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The novelist is less like a prophet than he is like the canary that coal miners used to take down into the shaft to test the air. When the canary gets unhappy, utters plaintive cries, and collapses, it may be time for the miners to surface and think things over.
—Walker Percy
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The Dealmaker by Edward Francisco Viola Sykes
is an unlikely heroine. Her son Harold, a shell-shocked veteran
of World War II, has been murdered for threatening to expose key
̃gures in a bootlegging and political conspiracy. Poorly educated
and with few resources, Viola must match wits with the suspected
culprit, Loather Parrish, a notorious political boss whose intelligence
is equaled only by his capacity for evil. In her efforts at retribution,
Viola struggles to prevent her daughter from becoming another pawn
in Loather Parris's political machinations. To secure their freedom,
Viola pursues a daring tactic: she commits herself to an infamous
mental hospital. more on this book “...a considerable
talent....” Available in cloth April 2002 280 pp. / 5 x 9" / $29.95 Author Bio & Book Tour / Free eBook Samples / Purchase
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Death, Child, & Love:Poems 1980-2000 by Edward Francisco “Edward
Francisco's poems, deeply moving, rooted in love of family, memory-haunting
in their evocations, are written by a master of language. His opening
poem is about the suicide of his mother, his closing poem about
his love for his wife. In the pages between are fine poems of other
loves and affiliations written by a person who has lived life fully,
taken its challenges, lost and won as all people do, and yet remains
fast in his belief that goodness may be found in belief and devotion.”
more on this book paper / 108 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5" / $17.95 |
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The
Old Ones by Robert
Coles “Superbly
presented. As a collective portrait this book allows its subjects
to reveal themselves with a directness and an immediacy that renders
social analysis of their situation of their situation almost superfluous.” “An eloquent
picture of the hard but productive and fulfilling lives of these
rural people. Coles and photographer Alex Harris were able to break
through the reticence of these people and have captured the essence
of their lives.” paper / 100 pp / 8.5 x 10" / $29.95 |