Years ago, Shad Sentell  and his brother E.M. founded Omega Oil.  Now Omega is an international giant, E.M. had become a slick tycoon, and Shad has stayed raw and real.  Because of a past betrayal, the two brothers hate each other, but E.M. needs Shad.  Omega’s biggest well, Okeanos, is ablaze in the Gulf, and only Shad can put it out.  A lustful but sympathetic lover of women, hard-drinking and hard-brawling, Shad blazes a riotous trail across Louisiana that includes the wildest Mardi Gras that New Orleans has ever seen and culminates in an explosive confrontation with Okeanos--and with E.M., when long-kept family secrets are finally revealed.

Shad Sentell

CORRINGTON, John William

Roman Books, Inc

Crime reporter Wes Colvin's anonymous informant leads him to a New Orleans bar, a brutal mass murder, and a political investigation that probes deep into Louisiana politics and the murk surrounding Huey Long's assassination

SO SMALL A CARNIVAL

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Fawcett

New Orleans homicide detective Captain Rat Trapp ruthlessly pursues the murderer of a star witness against a mob kingpin and the vengeful drug dealers who killed the son of Rat's old flame

A Project Named Desire

Assistant D.A. Denise Lemoyne finds herself in a deadly vortex between her private life and her public role when her beloved godmother, Madeline St. Juste, is found murdered

A CIVIL Death

The past isn't dead. It isn't even the past," William Faulker wrote.The Southern Reporter constitutes a report on the collisions between a present that cannot find its voice and a past that reaches out incessantly into the lives of contemporary men and women.
An old Louisiana lawyer finds himself in California seeking a missing heir who is a physicist, musician, doctor, theologian-and a leader of a crazed and murderous santanistic cult.
A childless retired couple prepares treats for Halloween's children-only to find that the "children" have taken on the character of their terrifying costumes.
An elderly lawyer, dying of cancer, is forced to recall an even greater pain and finds his own kind of salvation in the remembrance of love.
A court reporter, who has spent his life recording the crimes and affairs of others, at last cannot stand the flood of evil and visits his own justice on a man the jury has found innocent of rape.
A young boy is caught between his high-spirited, hell-raising uncle and the deadly civilizing force of his mother.
The Southern Reporter penetrates the façade of contemporary life, looking for its roots in the past -- not simply the past of its people but the looming imaginary structure of western history, against which all of us lead our lives -- and die our deaths. The search for images of order and the loss of them constitute the meaning of The Southern Reporter.

The Southern Reporter

Literature & Fiction

United States

Louisiana State Univ Pr

The past isn't dead. It isn't even the past," William Faulker wrote.The Southern Reporter constitutes a report on the collisions between a present that cannot find its voice and a past that reaches out incessantly into the lives of contemporary men and women.An old Louisiana lawyer finds himself in California seeking a missing heir who is a physicist, musician, doctor, theologian-and a leader of a crazed and murderous santanistic cult.A childless retired couple prepares treats for Halloween's children-only to find that the "children" have taken on the character of their terrifying costumes.An elderly lawyer, dying of cancer, is forced to recall an even greater pain and finds his own kind of salvation in the remembrance of love.A court reporter, who has spent his life recording the crimes and affairs of others, at last cannot stand the flood of evil and visits his own justice on a man the jury has found innocent of rape.A young boy is caught between his high-spirited, hell-raising uncle and the deadly civilizing force of his mother.The Southern Reporter penetrates the façade of contemporary life, looking for its roots in the past -- not simply the past of its people but the looming imaginary structure of western history, against which all of us lead our lives -- and die our deaths. The search for images of order and the loss of them constitute the meaning of The Southern Reporter.

The Southern Reporter and Other Stories

LSU Press

Book by Corrington, John William, Corrington, Joyce H.

The Collected Stories of John William Corrington

Univ of Missouri Pr

Shad Sentell: Love, Lust & Louisiana Oil

Congdon & Weed, Inc.

All My Trials

Univ of Arkansas Pr

Short Stories & Anthologies

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Shad Sentell

SO SMALL A CARNIVAL

A Project Named Desire

A CIVIL Death

The Southern Reporter

The Southern Reporter and Other Stories

The Collected Stories of John William Corrington

Shad Sentell: Love, Lust & Louisiana Oil

All My Trials

All My Trials