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1	I Am One of You Forever more books like this by Fred Chappell This novel describes the experiences of a young boy growing up in North Carolina in the 1940s. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Brighten the Corner Where You Are more books like this by Fred Chappell 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You: Stories more books like this by Fred Chappell One of the most acclaimed books of 1996, this novel is rich with the music of the Southern mountains and the stories of their people. Jess Kirkman's grandmother is dying, and as her family gathers around her, Jess remembers the tales she and his mother have passed down to him. Fred Chappell assembles a chorus of women's voices that sing and share ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Yellow Shoe Poets: Selected Poems, 1964-1999 more books like this by George P Garrett (Editor), Fred Chappell (Foreword by) Since 1964, when Louisiana State University Press published its inaugural book of verse (Miller Williams's A Circle of Stone), its poetry list has grown exponentially -- 191 books by 95 poets -into a program that inspires understandable pride in those associated with it. Two collections have won the Pulitzer Prize -- The Flying Change (1986), by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Look Back All the Green Valley more books like this by Fred Chappell Jess Kirkman returns to his hometown in the North California mountains when his mother becomes ill. He stumbles upon a mysterious homemade machine and a map drawn by his father, who died 10 years earlier, which help him piece together the details of his father's life, and the life of his family, that he never knew before. This is the fourth and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You more books like this by Fred Chappell A series of linked stories about the women in a rural Appalachian community. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	More shapes than one more books like this by Fred Chappell This beautifully written and imaginative collection of 13 stories, from the award-winning author of Brighten the Corner Where You Are, is about truth and the people who search for it. As they chart where truth and fiction merge, these stories engage the mind and delight the eye and ear. The Los Angeles Times calls Chappell", one of the South's and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $93.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Family Gathering more books like this by Fred Chappell The occasion might be a holiday or a wedding, a christening or a funeral, and a family is gathered on the eve to eat, drink, talk, and cast eyes upon each other. Like all relations, the extended family in Fred Chappell's Family Gathering has its foibles and strengths -- oddballs and know-it-alls, hussies and historians, sparring spouses and model ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.55! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Gaudy Place more books like this by Fred Chappell Fred Chappell's The Gaudy Place is perhaps the first novel to depict the society of the street people of the New South and their relationship to the middle class. For its wry portrayal of displacement and injustice this novel was awarded the Sir Walter Raleigh Prize. The street-smart teenager Arkie triggers the events of the story with his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.03! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Inkling more books like this by Fred Chappell Fred Chappell's second novel draws with uncanny verity the disturbed perceptions and lives of two children growing up in an isolated household somewhere in North Carolina. Jan, the boy, wound mentally taut as a trap, and his retarded sister, Timmie, form a strange but mutually protective partnership in the household they share with their widowed, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.60! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Midquest: A Poem more books like this by Fred Chappell Winner of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry Together now, the four poems River, Bloodfire, Wind Mountain, and Earthsleep counterpoint one another in a grand symphony, Midquest. In what he has referred to as "something like a verse novel," Fred Chappell has summoned up the rich veins of memory and brings this to bear on the contemporary sensibility. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Fred Chappell reader more books like this by Fred Chappell Selected by the author, this anthology presents Chappell's work in a variet of forms--one complete novel, eight short stories, poems, a portion of four novels, and an Afterword. The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Not since James Agee and Robert Penn Warren has a Southern writer displayed such masterful versatility". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry more books like this by Fred Chappell Essays on poetry and poets by Fred Chappell, poet and novelist (and winner of Yale's Bollingen Prize in Poetry), including observations on Alfred Corn, Linda Pastan, the plight of the critic, and the role of the writing teacher. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	More Shapes Than One: A Book of Stories more books like this by Fred Chappell A rich and varied collection of stories about seekers of truth, who find it manifests itself in wonderful, humorous, and terrible forms. "One of the South's and indeed the country's finest writers . . . a novelist and poet of great range and talent".--Los Angeles Times. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Close to Home: Revelations and Reminiscences by North Carolina Authors more books like this by Lee Child, Fred Chappell, Daphne Athas Twenty-one N.C. authors write original essays about what home means to them see all copies from $3.39! new only from $5.25! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Spring Garden: New and Selected Poems more books like this by Fred Chappell Spring Garden selects poems from six of Fred Chappell's previous collections and adds to them some thirty new ones. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Pete and Shirley: The Great Tar Heel Novel more books like this by David Perkins (Editor), Lee Smith, Fred Chappell What happens when 17 of North Carolina's best known and most shameless writers agree to write a serial novel, each producing a chapter in turn? A writer's conference writhing with reptiles. A mysterious death. Gross dressing. An encounter with Robert James Waller. A family values brush arbor revival. Not to mention other crimes and misdemeanors. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Locales: Poems from the Fellowship of Southern Writers more books like this by Fred Chappell (Editor), George P Garrett (Foreword by) 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Dagon more books like this by Fred Chappell This early novel by Fred Chappell -- awarded the Best Foreign Book of the Year Prize by the Academie Francaise and listed among the 100 best horror novels -- remains one of the author's most widely read works. Praised as being "of a very high order [and] precise, dry elegance" (New York Times Book Review), it is a spellbinding work of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $53.96! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	C: Poems more books like this by Fred Chappell 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	New Ground more books like this by Nancy Dillingham, Fred Chappell (Foreword by) Strongly evocative of time and place and unified by voice and theme, Nancy Dillingham's poems and prose resonate with the poignancy of a warm Southern day. Like a child's game of hide-and-seek with the moon, these stories and poems take the reader on a journey of shadow and light, of discovery and loss, of sorrow and joy, of found magic -- moving ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
22 view cover	Backsass: Poems more books like this by Fred Chappell 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| SVS
23 view cover	It is Time, Lord more books like this by Fred Chappell Daring to recall the events of his childhood, espcially the fire that destroyed his grandparents' home, James Christopher, the protagonist of Chappell's It Is Time, Lord, struggles to truly understand his history and its influence on the man he has become. "Rarely does a young writer demonstrate such remarkable skill in his first novel. . . . His ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.72! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	The World Between the Eyes: Poems more books like this by Fred Chappell see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	First and Last Words: Poems more books like this by Fred Chappell see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.97! \| first editions

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