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Rounding a bend, they almost ran into a flock of sheep, tended by a boy in a coat that was far too big for him and belted at the waist with a twist of yellow binder twine. Reck stopped the van and the two men sat stranded amid a moving sea
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“What has he learned? Ah yes”
― The Ferryman and His Wife
― The Ferryman and His Wife
“He was born the day he first heard the song of a whale, and he has been finding ways to record them ever since. In one moment high and squeaking like the top note of a violin, in the next guttural, echoing, some space between the moan of a cow and the trumpet of an elephant. Sometimes joyous and playful, sometimes mournful and searching. Sometimes with a trill or a creak or a rumble. A question, a call, a love letter.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“A tale has many tails, and many heads, particularly if it’s true. Like life, it is a river with many branches, rivulets, creeks, and distributaries.”
― The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel
― The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel
“Anger makes the mind clear and incisive”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“Living happened till it didn’t. There was no choice in it. To say no to a new day would be unthinkable. So each morning you said yes”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
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Whether you prefer Faulkner, O'Connor, McCullers or more recent authors of Southern Literature such as Clyde Edgerton, Tom Franklin, William Gay, or M ...more
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