Violence and sex in a small Southern city.        Arkie, Clemmie, Oxie, and Johns are linked by a schoolboy's prank. Arkie, Clemmie, and Oxie are three of a kind: cons who grub for small change. They have no history and no future. Johns is their counterpart in a brighter universe. His thievery is sanctioned because he's Family in a small Southern city.        Arkie: Suddenly it occurred to him that this street, Gimlet Street, could take you anywhere in the world, it was joined to all the other streets there were. He shook his head, grinning. This was his territory. He was chained to Gimlet and he was chained to Clemmie, that green-eyed girl he was so helplessly in love with.            Fred Chappell is a past Poet Laureate of North Carolina.   For an author bio, photo, and a sample read visit bosonbooks.com

The gaudy place

Chappell, Fred

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

This sampling of the author's work includes a complete novel, "Dagon"; substantial portions of four other novels; several short stories, and poems culled from eleven volumes

The Fred Chappell Reader

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

St Martins Pr

Recounts the adventures of a North Carolina high school teacher who rescues a drowning child, retrieves a goat from the school's roof, and confronts a mysterious custodian

Brighten the Corner Where You Are

United States

This story of a day in the life of Joe Robert Kirkman, a North Carolina mountain schoolteacher, sly prankster, country philosopher, and family man, won the hearts of readers and reviewers across the country.

Brighten the Corner Where You Are: A Novel (The Kirkman Family Cycle, 2)

St. Martin's: Griffin

This sampling of the author's work includes a complete novel, "Dagon", substantial portions of four other novels, several short stories, and poems culled from eleven volumes

A collection of thirteen short stories which describes what happens to individuals who obtain peculiar objects of their particular desires

More Shapes Than One

st.martins press

These thirteen tales are populated by an assortment of fictional as well as real characters, all of them vividly sketched and true-to-life: the botanist Linnaeus, the composer Offenbach, the poet Hart Crane, the visionary horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, a southern sheriff, a dealer in rare books, a country singer, an old maid (and her suitor), and a mathematician. Whether these stories are deemed disquieting, comic, prophetic, or tall in the telling, they show us worlds where the truth reveals itself in many shapes. Throughout the writings comprising More Shapes Than One, Fred Chappell's storytelling magic transforms the commonplace.

More Shapes Than One: A Book of Stories

As Jess Kirkman's grandmother lies dying, he begins to recall the stories she and his mother have passed on to him--"Fisherwoman" and "Traveling Woman", "Silent Woman" and "Feistiest Woman"--offering a chorus of women's voices that helped shape his youth and his preparation to become a man.

Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You

Picador USA

Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You is rich with the music of the Southern mountains and the stories of their people. Jess Kirkman's grandmother is dying, and Jess remembers the tales she and his mother have passed down to him--a chorus of women's voices that sing and share and celebrate the common song of life.

Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You: Stories (The Kirkman Family Cycle, 3)

Picador

One of our most acclaimed and versatile authors, Fred Chappell is comfortably at home in fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. A Way of Happening gathers his essays and reviews of contemporary poetry. Chappell consider new writers as well as more established authors, including Alfred Corn, William Matthews, A. R. Ammons, Linda Pastan, Julia Randall, Cornelius Eady, Alan Shapiro, and many others. And there are essays on the plight of the critic ("Thanks but No Thanks") and the delicate role of the writing teacher ("First Night Come Round Again").

A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry

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Books by Chappell, Fred

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The gaudy place

The Fred Chappell Reader

Brighten the Corner Where You Are

Brighten the Corner Where You Are: A Novel (The Kirkman Family Cycle, 2)

The Fred Chappell Reader

More Shapes Than One

More Shapes Than One: A Book of Stories

Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You

Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You: Stories (The Kirkman Family Cycle, 3)

A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry