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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

    $8.99 CAD

  • 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

    $10.99 CAD

  • 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

    $21.99 CAD

  • It Is Time, Lord

    by Fred Chappell ...
    James Christopher—book editor, husband, and father of two—is headed for trouble. Once a North Carolina farm boy who grew up hoeing, fighting, and listening to his grandmother read from the Bible, James resigns from his job for no apparent reason, drinks too much, fails in his attempt to take up writing, and, following the advice of a skirt-chasing rogue, has an affair with a woman he dislikes. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • 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

    $8.99 CAD

  • Moments of Light

    by Fred Chappell ...
    Moments of Light Foreward by Annie Dillard. These stories prove that the mythic powers of the balladeer and the story teller survive even in this fragmented and unmysterious day. In the eleven stories gathered here, Fred Chappell engages and entertains our minds and sends us away singing in our hearts, more knowing, more understanding of ourselves. Fred Chappell's voice is sure and his vision is ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • 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

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Fred Chappell Reader

    by Fred Chappell ...
    An Anthology Showcasing the Brilliant Versatility of Acclaimed American Author Fred ChappellThe Fred Chappell Reader is an anthology that bears witness to the remarkable scope of Fred Chappell's career, featuring a rich body of narrative and lyrical fictions ranging over history, mythology, science, philosophy, and Chappell's own life. Recognized as a storyteller "to put on the shelf with Mark ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • 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

    $10.99 CAD

  • 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

    $17.59 CAD

  • Shadow Box

    Poems

    by Fred Chappell ...
    In this sharply innovative collection, renowned poet Fred Chappell layers words and images to create a new and dramatic poetic form—the poem-within-a-poem. Like the shadow box in the volume’s title, each piece consists of an inner world contained, framed, supported by an outer—the two interdependent, sometimes supplementary, often contrary. For example, the grim but gorgeous “The Caretakers” is a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Way of Happening

    Observations of Contemporary Poetry

    by Fred Chappell ...
    One of our most acclaimed and versatile authors, Fred Chappell is comfortably at home in fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. A Way of Happening gathers his essays and reviews of contemporary poetry. Chappell consider new writers as well as more established authors, including Alfred Corn, William Matthews, A. R. Ammons, Linda Pastan, Julia Randall, Cornelius Eady, Alan Shapiro, and many others ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD