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Praise for Fred Chappell "An immensely gifted, exuberant, versatile writer who should be ranked among our important contemporary voices."--William Styron

Excerpt from The Archive, Vol. 73: October, 1960When I woke up the next time, the sun had started to rise. I looked about the hide-out, the rest of the gang was still sleeping. Except for the beans that were scattered over the camping spot, everything was in its place. Nothing in the hide-out had been damaged or stolen during the night. I didn't feel like going back to sleep, so I crawled out of my sleeping bag and -put on my shoes. I don't kn...

Excerpt from The Archive, Vol. 73: October, 1960When I woke up the next time, the sun had started to rise. I looked about the hide-out, the rest of the gang was still sleeping. Except for the beans that were scattered over the camping spot, everything was in its place. Nothing in the hide-out had been damaged or stolen during the night. I didn't feel like going back to sleep, so I crawled out of my sleeping bag and -put on my shoes. I don't kn...

This collection of humorous and satiric verse takes its title from that thoroughly southern term meaning "irreverent retort, " "ironic remark, " or "scoffing observation." The ancient Roman poet Juvenal noted that his world made it hard not to write satire. Fred Chappell, finding his contemporary era analogous to that of imperial Rome, has in Backsass given in to the impulse for invective and mockery. The satirist's final aim is to improve the...

In this collection, Fred Chappell shows his mastery across a range of genres. Featuring folk fables in the Twain tradition, realistic stories of growing up in remote Appalachia, stories of family, kin, and community, and tales of the fantastic and spooky, this book will delight fans and surprise new readers.

Solitary, graceful, and contemplative, cats have inspired poets from Charles Baudelaire to Margaret Atwood to serve as their chroniclers and celebrants. They have appeared, wrapped in their inscrutability, in verse both sensual and spiritual, weary and whimsical. With Familiars, Fred Chappell proves himself a worthy addition to the fellowship of poets who have sought to immortalize their beloved cats. Here are cats as personalities, cats as ar...

Poems by Fred Chappell.Fred Chappell has long been considered one of the South's finest writers of both fiction and poetry. C not only provides abundant justification for that assessment but also makes clear the inadequacy of the geographical stricture, Chappell is indeed a writer of world-class stature.

Brighten the Corner Where You Are was handsdown one of the most widely read and favorably reviewed novels of 1989. This story of a day in the life of Joe Robert Kirkman. North Carolina mountain schoolteacher, sly prakster, and family man, won the hearts of readers and reviews across the country.

A good thief barters in goods. A great one deals in shadows.A Shadow all of Light is a stylish, elegant, episodic fantasy novel by World Fantasy Award-winning author and former poet laureate Fred Chappell. This stylish, episodic fantasy novel is for fans of epic fantasies and heists. The tale follows the exploits of Falco, a young man from the country, who arrives in the port city of Tardocco with the ambition of becoming an apprentice to a ma...

The two-for-the-price-of-one poems in Shadow Boxpoems enclosed, or embedded, or inlaid within poems--comprise a new and dramatic verse form by one of Americas most respected poets. While playful in their construction, they present heartfelt examinations of human feelings, respond somberly to the news of the world, and rejoice in humankinds plentiful variety of attitudes and beliefs. In the end, these poems broaden the expressive possibilities ...

Regularly cited in lists of the world's best horror novels, Dagon tells the story of Peter Leland whose ancestral secrets emerge to plunge him into a world of terror and degradation. Employing the Mythos developed by America's great fantasist, H. P. Lovecraft, this novel transforms traditional Gothic elements into an intense, scarifying, modern work. An international bestseller, Dagon was awarded the Best Foreign Book prize by the French Aca...

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Although Fred Chappell has long been recognized as a novelist of talent and achievement, his poetry has been known to only a few because he has chosen to publish little. Now, in this collection, his work becomes widely available for the first time. The subjects of these poems range from the poet's love for his wife and son to that hallowed American institution, the skin flick, from baseball to blues. From "Trios II" to the slaughter of pigs. T...

This collection of humorous and satiric verse takes its title from that thoroughly southern term meaning "irreverent retort, " "ironic remark, " or "scoffing observation." The ancient Roman poet Juvenal noted that his world made it hard not to write satire. Fred Chappell, finding his contemporary era analogous to that of imperial Rome, has in Backsass given in to the impulse for invective and mockery. The satirist's final aim is to improve the...

With this poem, Fred Chappell takes his readers far from the southern landscape and familiar passions of his acclaimed Midquest tetralogy. He tells instead of a forbidding medieval castle ruled by a mad king and peopled by bitter, scheming grotesques and melancholy weaklings who cower at the sound of the sweet, sad voice of truth that haunts their nights. Castle Tzingal is a fairy tale without moral or happy ending, a tale in which lies and se...

In a noteworthy career Fred Chappell has created a body of verse that will likely endure as long as the North Carolina mountains that are the setting of so many of his poems. In such works as the tetralogy Midquest and the long poem Castle Tzingal, Chappell has shown himself to be a master of his craft--acutely inquisitive and keenly observant, adept at a variety of forms and styles. Earlier this year Chappell's poetic achievement was honored ...

Offering a lyrical topography of the southern--and of the American--spirit, this collection of poetry demonstrates that there is no place, however small or remote or obscure, that cannot call forth a resonant outcry of the heart.

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Jess Kirkman returns to the North Carolina mountain town of his boyhood to tend to his ailing mother, and clean out his deceased father's workroom. What he discovers leads him through the secret life of his father, which culminated in a moment of mystery and comedy. Winner of the 1999 SEBA Award for Fiction. 17, 500.

This novel describes the experiences of a young boy growing up in North Carolina in the 1940s.