The cry of an occasion : fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers / edited by Richard Bausch ; with a foreword by George Garrett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bausch, Richard, 1945-

Fellowship of Southern Writers.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Southern States.

American fiction.

Short stories, American--Southern States.

Short stories, American.

Southern States.

Southern States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Manners and customs.

American fiction--20th century.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 210 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2001]

Summary:

A collection of short stories, selected by the South's most venerable writers who are all affiliated with the Fellowship of Southern Writers, celebrates the distinctness of the Southern experience, and features writers as Doris Betts, Barry Hannah, William Henry Lewis, and others.

Contents:

Naked lady / Madison Smartt Bell

Three ghosts / Doris Betts

Encyclopedia Daniel / Fred Chappell

About loving women / Ellen Douglas

Sacred mound / Shelby Foote

Feeling good, feeling fine / George Garrett

Reassurance / Allan Gurganus

Death and joy / Barry Hannah

Secret garden / William Hoffman

Sim Denny / Madison Jones

For Alice to the fourth floor / Michael Knight

Germinating / William Henry Lewis

Life prerecorded / Jill McCorkle

Tombstone / Lewis Nordan

Man at the beach / Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

Between the lines / Lee Smith

Everlasting light / Elizabeth Spencer

Losses / Walter Sullivan

Excerpts from the novel Tehano / Allen Wier.

ISBN:

0807126357

OCLC:

44883694