Jan Nordby Gretlund

Still in Print: The Southern Novel Today Jan Nordby Gretlund

Jacket Description/Flap: An insightful guidebook to some of the best examples of modern Southern fiction, as selected by an international group of criticsTable of Contents: Preface -- Introduction: A Time of Excellence in Southern Fiction -- Part I. A Sense of History -- Cold Mountain / Charles Frazier, cM. Thomas Inge -- Nowhere Else on Earth / Josephine Humphreys, Clara Juncker -- On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon / Kaye Gibbons, Kathryn Mckee -- So Far Back / Pam Durban, Jan Nordby Gretlund -- Erasure / Percival Everett, Tara Powell -- Part II. A Sense of Place -- The Oxygen Man / Steve Yarbrough, Thomas E. Dasher -- Fay / Larry Brown, Jean W. Cash -- The Good Brother / Chris Offutt, Carl Wieck -- Yonder Stands Your Orphan / Barry Hannah, Owen W. Gilman -- Crusader's Cross / James Lee Burke, Hans H. Skei -- Part III. A Sense of Humor -- Work Shirts for Madmen / George Singleton, Charles Israel -- The Bible Salesman / Clyde Edgerton, John Grammer -- Heavenly Days / James Wilcox, Scott Romine -- Enduring / Donald Harington, Edwin T. Arnold -- Lightning Song / Lewis Nordan, Marcel Arbeit -- Part IV. A Sense of Malaise -- One Foot in Eden / Ron Rash, Thomas aervold Bjerre -- The Lay of the Land / Richard Ford, Robert H. Brinkmeyer -- The Road / Cormac McCarthy, Richard Gray -- Contributors -- Index. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Available in paper. Review Citations:

Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 300 (EAN 9781570039447, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Gretlund, Jan Nordby Jan Nordby Gretlund is the chair of the Center for American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark and the author of Eudora Welty's Aesthetics of Place and Frames of Southern Mind: Reflections on the Stoic, Bi-Racial & Existential South. He is also editor of Madison Jones' Garden of Innocence and The Southern State of Mind and coeditor of Realist of Distances: Flannery O'Connor Revisited; Walker Percy: Novelist and Philosopher; Southern Landscapes; The Late Novels of Eudora Welty; and Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality.