| Music of the Swamp Contributor(s): Nordan, Lewis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1565120167 ISBN-13: 9781565120167 Publisher: Algonquin Books OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2014 Annotation: Nordan focuses his magic and imagination on a single theme--a boy's utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father. "Lyrically conjures up a Southern-fried childhood that's as dark, hilarious, and affecting as any you're likely to encounter".--Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1992 ALA Notable Book. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Southern |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 4.99" W x 6.97" (0.47 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page." --Southern Living Lewis Nordan's fiction invents its own world--always populated by madly heroic misfits. In Music of the Swamp, he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy's utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father--a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin's world with dazzling clarity: the smells, the tastes, and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar, somewhat bizarre, Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: "The Delta is filled up with death"; but he also finds an endless supply of hope. An ALA Notable BookMississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award |
Contributor Bio(s): Nordan, Lewis: - Lewis Nordan was a professor of creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh for many years and the author of seven books of fiction and a memoir. His awards include three American Library Association Notable Book citations, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for fiction, the Mississippi Authors Award for fiction, and the Southern Book Critics Award for fiction. He died in 2012. |