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Mississippi Books and WritersNovember 1997Note: Prices listed below reflect the publisher's suggested list price. They are subject to change without notice.
Fiction by Rick Bass Houghton Mifflin (Hardcover, $23.00, ISBN: 0395717582 ) Publication date: November 1997 Description: Magical, passionate, lyrical, and gritty, the three short novels in this collection are perhaps the finest yet by the acclaimed author of Winter, The Lost Grizzlies, In the Loyal Mountains, and The Book of Yaak. Sharing the central theme of land, these deeply original stories will amaze and delight readers. Ten Point: Deer Camp in the Mississippi Delta By Alan Huffman University Press of Mississippi (Hardcover; $35.00; ISBN: 1578060001) Publication date: November 1997 The author writes: “Ten Point is basically an illustrated history of a group of people who found themselves at a crossroadswhere the frontier of the old South and 20th century progress temporarily coexisted, and then collapsed upon one another in the Mississippi Delta. The story of Ten Point Deer Club illustrates one aspect of southern culture that has been very little documentedthe relationships between people and the woods and with others of like minds. Most books on southern culture focus on the Civil War or civil rights, yet hunting and fishing are probably of greater interest to a larger number of southerners, and unfortunately, few have traditionally photographed those past-times or written about them. Ten Point and the big woods in which it nestledwhere Teddy Roosevelt once hunted bear, and which Faulkner described as the last holdout of the Delta wildernessare now sadly gone. But in these photographs, a way of life there and elsewhere in the South endures. My job was simply to tell the story, to fill in the blanks between the captions of my grandmothers photographs, which were taken during the final years of the Deltas big woods between the 1920s and the 1960s.” And All These Roads Be Luminous: Selected Poems 1969-1993 Triquarterly Books (Hardcover, $39.95, ISBN: 081015076X; Paperback, $14.95, ISBN: 0810150778) Publication date: November 1997 Description: As Angela Jackson has developed as a poet, her poetry has engaged various artistic perspectives, yet always maintains a characteristic combination of compassion, grace, and daring. Jackson moves with ease from the personal to the historicalfilled alternately with wonder, righteous anger, tenderness, and a tangible intensity. Her verse is rich and passionate and brimming with poetic surprises. Adaptation by Tennessee Williams based on the play by Anton Chekhov; edited by Allean Hale New Directions (Hardcover, $19.95, ISBN: 0811213714; Paperback, $9.95, ISBN: 0811213625) Publication date: November 1997 Description: Near the end of his life, Tennessee Williams chance to interpret The Sea Gull was realized at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where a production which brought Chekhovs buried conflicts to the surface was produced in 1980. Williams genius, combined with the powerful Russian classic by Anton Chekhov, creates a daring new concept for today's American theatre. By Jack Butler Algonquin (Hardcover, $19.95, ISBN: 156512149X ) Publication date: November 1997 Description: “Im the original improvisational cook,” writes Jack Butler in the introduction to Jacks Skillet. And his book proves him right. Butlers food writing is flavored delightfully by his down-home good-ol-boy Arkansas/Mississippi roots and spiced up by his humorous observations. Luckily for hungry readers, the book also includes 60 recipes for all the essential dishes in Butlers pantry, including Apple Bread Pudding, Fajitas, Strawberry Shortcake, and Chicken Pot Pie.
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