Books by Fred Chappell
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I Am One of You Forever : A Novel
Paperback - 184 pages
Louisiana edition (August 1987), Louisiana State University Press
This novel describes the experiences of a young boy growing up in North Carolina in the 1940s.
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Brighten the Corner Where You Are
Paperback - 212 pages
Reprint edition (September 1990), St. Martin's Press
Brighten the Corner Where You Are was hands down one of the most widely read and favorably reviewed novels of 1989. This story of a day in the life of Joe Robert Kirkman, North Carolina mountain schoolteacher, sly prankster, and family man, won the hearts of readers and reviews across the country.
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Look Back All the Green Valley
Paperback - 278 pages
(October 2000), Picador USA
The New York Times Book Review, Beth Wolfensberger Singer
You can't imagine a more trustworthy narrator than Jess, yet Chappell occasionally has him stretch things into the realm of magical realism.
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Family Gathering : Poems
Hardcover - 72 pages
(November 2000), Louisiana State University Press
Reviewer: Kathryn S. Byer from Cullowhee, NC
Fred Chappell, one of our modern poetic masters, has given us a book that brings its reader no-holds-barred pleasure. Chappell renders his family portraits with wit and craft, using rhyme, for example, that makes us sit up and take notice, lift our ears, ready for more.
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A Way of Happening : Observations of...
Hardcover - 320 pages
1 Ed edition (April 1998), Picador USA
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