Lewis Nordan
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Language
English
Description
ALA Notable Book; 1994 Mississippi Writers Award for Fiction; 1994 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In WOLF WHISTLE, Lewis Nordan unleashes the hellhounds of his prodigious imagination on one of the most notorious racial killings of the century, the Emmett Till murder. Soon we're on a magical mystery tour of the Southern psyche of the mid-1950s and the dawning of guilt and recognition in a whole generation of white Southerners. "An...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Lewis Nordan is famous for his special vision of the Mississippi Delta. His characters, for whom the closest-though hopelessly inadequate-description might be "eccentrics," share the stage with swamp elves and midgets living in the backyard. His fiction is unlike anybody else's and is as dark, hilarious, and affecting as any ever written.
It's also writing that lays bare the agony of adolescence and plows, as the Cleveland Plain Dealer once put...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Two youths walk into a store in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, and are shot. Murder, self-defense or accident? Marshall Chisolm's probe turns into an examination of the violence and loss which result when guns come out to play in a small town. By the author of Wolf Whistle.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
"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...