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Showing 1 - 12 of 22 results for “fred chappell”
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  • The Inkling

    by Fred Chappell ...
    The Inkling by Fred Chappell is, says the New York Times, "A work of genuine talent…. Chappell writes with power and passion and with flashes of humor."This early novel of Chappell's takes sixteen-year-old Jan to where we often try to go—the place where all is right just before it goes wrong. The novel begins and ends with Jan's vision in just that place and with his searing pain of ignorance and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • I Am One of You Forever

    A Novel

    by Fred Chappell ...
    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, it tells of ten-year-old Jess and his family -- father, mother, grandmother, foster brother, and an odd assortment of other relatives -- who usher Jess into the adult world, with all its attendant ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • More Shapes Than One

    A Book of Stories

    by Fred Chappell ...
    These thirteen tales are populated by an assortment of fictional as well as real characters, all of them vividly sketched and true-to-life: the botanist Linnaeus, the composer Offenbach, the poet Hart Crane, the visionary horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, a southern sheriff, a dealer in rare books, a country singer, an old maid (and her suitor), and a mathematician. Whether these stories are deemed ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Ancestors and Others

    New and Selected Stories

    by Fred Chappell ...
    Ancestors and Others collects selected stories from the legendary southern writer, Fred ChappellIn 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Familiars

    Poems

    by Fred Chappell ...
    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Shadow All of Light

    by Fred Chappell ...
    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 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Dagon

    by Fred Chappell ...
    Yellow light filled the attic. The light locked with the dust—tons of dust up here—and the atmosphere of the place stuffed his head like a fever. It seemed that he perceived this light with every nerve of his body. The attic was mostly empty but toward the south wall was a queer arrangement of chains; the ends dangled about seven feet from the floor and had broad iron bands attached. The bands ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Brighten the Corner Where You Are

    A Novel

    by Fred Chappell ...
    Series Book 2 - The Kirkman Family Cycle
    Brighten the Corner Where You Are is the riveting story of a day in the life of Joe Robert Kirkman, a North Carolina mountain schoolteacher, sly prankster, country philosopher, and family man.This novel from award-winning author Fred Chappell has won the hearts of readers and reviewers across the country. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You

    A Novel

    by Fred Chappell ...
    Series Book 3 - The Kirkman Family Cycle
    Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You is rich with the music of the Southern mountains and the stories of their people. In this novel from acclaimed author Fred Chappell, Jess Kirkman's grandmother is dying, and Jess remembers the tales she and his mother have passed down to him--a chorus of women's voices that sing and share and celebrate the common song of life. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Look Back All the Green Valley

    A Novel

    by Fred Chappell ...
    Series Book 4 - The Kirkman Family Cycle
    The Poet Laureate of North Carolina offers a novel of a man who returns to his small Appalachian hometown and unearths a family mystery.Jess Kirkman returns to the North Carolina mountain town of his boyhood to be with his ailing mother and finally settle the family's accounts after the death of his father ten years ago. Cleaning out his father's secret work room reunites him with the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ever After

    Poems

    by Fred Chappell ...
    In his final book, the celebrated poet Fred Chappell reflects on life and the beyond. Details drawn from daily actions, religion, classical myth, and the Appalachian landscape adorn this autumnal collection that unearths connections both strong and tenuous among apparently disparate subjects, all percolated with Chappell’s signature wit and warm vision. A student’s observation that “Poems are how ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Gaudy Place

    by Fred Chappell ...
    Violence and sex in a small Southern city. Arkie, Clemmie, Oxie, and Johns are linked by a schoolboy's prank. Arkie, Clemmie, and Oxie are three of a kind: cons who grub for small change. They have no history and no future. Johns is their counterpart in a brighter universe. His thievery is sanctioned because he's Family in a small Southern city. Arkie: Suddenly it occurred to him that this street, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD