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1) Crazy in Alabama

Author

Childress, Mark

Pub. Date

[1993]

Language

English

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With his sharp observations of the American South, best-selling author Mark Childress draws favorable comparisons to Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Set in the volatile 1960s, this book takes flight in two separate directions when everyone goes a little crazy in rural Alabama. When Lucille can no longer bear her oppressive husband, she drops a little rat poison in his coffee. Decapitating him for good measure, she stuffs the wayward head...

2) Georgia Bottoms: a novel

Author

Childress, Mark

Pub. Date

2011.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle. Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative, and discreet, means of income. In Georgia's case it is six well-heeled lovers-one for each day of the week, with Mondays off-none of whom knows about the others. But when the married...

3) One Mississippi: a novel

Author

Childress, Mark

Pub. Date

2006.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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Mark Childress is the author of the New York Times best-seller Crazy in Alabama. Here he again turns his keen literary eye to smalltown Southern living. Yankee transplant Daniel Musgrove can't seem to fit in at his Mississippi high school. When he meets fellow outsider Tim Cousins, things look up. Then the two boys' battles with a local bully escalate into a violent act that rocks the town.