Six-year-old Gatewood Turnbolt admires no one more than his father Will, a reckless cotton farmer, until the day Will's quick anger explodes into violence that changes Gatewood's life permanently

Some Sweet Day (Southern Writers Series)

Literature & Fiction

Woolley, Bryan

Genre Fiction

Avon/Books

Fiction. Hidden away in the nooks and crannies of American literature there are a number of overlooked masterpieces. One of these, SOME SWEET DAY, is an unrelenting portrait of life in a small town on the Texas prairie during World War II."It is an evocative, painful and lovely book that captures the immediacy and bewilderment of a child facing harsh imponderables for the first time."—Publishers Weekly

Some sweet day

Random House]

A fictionalized account of the assassination of President Kennedy details the incidents of the day and how one shocking event changed the lives of a group of Dallas people and the rest of the world

November 22

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

BERKLEY

Documents the long and bitter fight of the Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners for recognition of the UMWA

We Be Here When the Morning Comes

Business & Money

Reid, Ford

Economics

Univ Pr of Kentucky

A fictionalized account of the assassination of President Kennedy details the incidents of the day and how one shocking event changed the lives of a group of Dallas people and the rest of the world.

Seaview Books

The Edge of the West & Other Texas Stories

History

Americas

Texas Western Pr

Twenty-four true Texas stories include subjects as diverse as H. Ross Perot, Doak Walker, Roy Orbison, Barefoot Sanders, Ralph Yarbrough, playing poker with the poker champion of the world, visiting Washington on the Brazos, and following the Trail of Beers en route to the Texas OU game, by one of the state's great journalists and novelists.

The Edge of the West and Other Texas Stories

Some Sweet Day is the story of the Turnbolt family in 1944, as told by six year old Gatewood Turnbolt, the eldest son. His relationship with his father, Will Turnbolt, a volatile, sometimes violent man, is a combination of wariness and love.

Some Sweet Day

United States

The story of Sam Bass, both outlaw and romantic figure, has become a familiar part of Texas folklore and is well documented in nonfiction. But in this novel, Bryan Woolley creates a compelling story by giving the antihero fictional life. Woolley brings Bass alive through six alternating voices—Maude, the whore who was Bass's lover; Mary Matson, the African American who took him in and tended him as he lay dying; Dad Egan, the lawman who was once a father-figure to young Sam Bass but feels compelled to capture the outlaw; Frank Johnson, who rode with Bass but left the outlaw life to reappear as a small-town doctor; and Jim Murphy, the well-meaning saloonkeeper who makes a bargain with the law and brings down Sam Bass. In shaping the Bass story, Woolley explores the themes of youth and age, impulse and wisdom. An outlaw, for many of us, is not a villain or a criminal but someone who, by choice or circumstance, finds himself at odds with society. We see the outlaw life as one of carefree freedom without responsibilities and full of infinite possibilities. Frank Jackson says it best as he recalls riding with Sam Bass: “I felt like an outlaw but not like a criminal, and the beauty of the day and its freedom filled me.”

Sam Bass (Texas Tradition Series) (Volume 36)

Literary

TCU Press

A compilation of author and journalist Bryan Woolley’s The Dallas Morning News columns from 1999 through 2003, Texas Road Trip explores back roads, small towns, and Texas originals. Follow him on his road trips across the Great State as he meets interesting people and hears fascinating, even bizarre, tales. As Woolley says, Texas Road Trip takes us beyond the “super highways spewing diesel smoke and danger to the sparsely traveled farm-to-market roads and the old highways that used to connect the little towns before the interstates bypassed them.” Tinged with nostalgia for a bygone way of life, the essays acquaint us with the pleasure of drinking a Coca Cola in a bottle that sports ice crystals (“Cold Drink”) or a Comanche ceremony in Palo Duro Canyon to re-sanctify the canyon that was once sacred (“Quanah's People”). He also explores more personal terrain in such stories as “Boys,” in which he recounts a trip he and his grown sons took in remembrance of their summer vacations in Fort Davis when the boys were young. Woolley’s thoughtful take imbues each essay with a generosity of spirit and a real enthusiasm for his subjects. From the stars of the Davis Mountains to the sophistication of Austin and Dallas, Texas Road Trip is an homage to Texas—its history, people, and culture.

Texas Road Trip (Chisholm Trail Series)

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Some Sweet Day (Southern Writers Series)

Some sweet day

November 22

We Be Here When the Morning Comes

November 22

The Edge of the West & Other Texas Stories

The Edge of the West and Other Texas Stories

Some Sweet Day

Sam Bass (Texas Tradition Series) (Volume 36)

Texas Road Trip (Chisholm Trail Series)