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Product details
- ISBN 9780807127841
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 142 x 217mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This ""smorgasbord of literary offerings"" (Publishers Weekly) self-selected by its contributors- ""a long list of luminaries"" (Library Journal)- includes works by Madison Smartt Bell, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, Ellen Douglas, Shelby Foote, George Garrett, Allan Gurganus, Barry Hannah, William Hoffman, Madison Jones, Michael Knight, William Henry Lewis, Jill McCorkle, Lewis Nordan, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Lee Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, Walter Sullivan, and Allen Wier. All are affiliated with the Fellowship of Southern Writers, organized in 1989 under the inspiration of the late Cleanth Brooks for the purpose of encouraging and honoring excellence in southern letters.
Each piece in The Cry of an Occasion celebrates the distinctness of southern experience, giving expression in story form to a singular episode of mind, heart, or will. Reading this exemplary collection is pure pleasure.
Each piece in The Cry of an Occasion celebrates the distinctness of southern experience, giving expression in story form to a singular episode of mind, heart, or will. Reading this exemplary collection is pure pleasure.
Richard Bausch is the author of five story collections and nine novels, including Take Me Back, Real Presence, and Hello to the Cannibals. He was elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 1995.
