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Mississippi Books and WritersMarch 1998Note: Prices listed below reflect the publisher's suggested list price. They are subject to change without notice.
A Corpse by Any Other Name: A Stokes Moran Mystery Fiction by Neil McGaughey Scribner (Hardcover; $22.00; ISBN: 0684197626 ) Publication date: March 1998 Description: As Kyle Malachi prepares for impending fatherhood, his growing alienation toward his better known alter ego Stokes Moran leads him into a rash acthe decides to kill off his fictitious rival. Everything seems fine until an actual corpse turns up with Stokes Moran’s identity. And Kyleto keep himself out of jail for a crime he didn’t commitmust put a name to the corpse. A name other than Stokes Moran. Any other name.
A Novel by Howard Bahr Henry Holt (Paperback, $12.00, ISBN: 0805054456) Publication date: March 1998 Description: One of the most riveting Civil War novels since Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels, this powerful book tells the story of a young Confederate rifleman who comes under the care of a young Southern woman who, even in the midst of battle and defeat, manages to find ways to express her love. Kirkus Reviews calls Bahr’s book “an impressive debut with a haunting tale of a brief but bloody encounter on the road to Nashville . A bleakly effective and economical account of men and women caught up in a bestial conflict.” Listening to the Voices: Stories from the Flannery O’Connor Award Edited by Charles East University of Georgia Press (Paperback, $15.95, ISBN: 0820319945) Publication date: March 1998 A Novel by Nevada Barr Putnam (Hardcover, $22.95, ISBN: 0399143718) Publication date: March 1998 Description: In Barr’s gripping new novel, park ranger Anna Pigeon faces personal demons as well as life-threatening dangers in an untamed underground wilderness. When a fellow ranger is injured in a caving accident, Anna swallows her paralyzing fear of small spaces and descends into Lechuguilla Cavern to help a friend in need. A Play by Tennessee Williams Buccaneer Books (Hardcover, ISBN: 1568496389) Publication date: March 1998 (Reprint Edition) Poems by Sterling Plumpp Third World Press (Paperback, $12.95, ISBN: 0883781980) Publication date: March 1998 By Patrick
D. Smith Pineapple Press (Hardcover, $17.95, ISBN: 1561641529) Publication date: March 1998 Description: Just as the blacks and whites of a small Southern
town think theyre moving toward racial equality, civil rights workers
arrive and violence erupts. Patrick D. Smith, award-winning author, wrote
The Beginning in the 1960s at the height of the Civil Rights movement.
He offered an inside perspective on its effect on the people, both black
and white, caught in the upheaval of the changing South. Thirty years have
passed and it is time to bring this novel back to a new generation of readers
to reassess the times and the decisions of those who lived through them.
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