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Wolf Whistle

Product Description: ALA Notable Book; 1994 Mississippi Writers Award for Fiction; 1994 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In WOLF WHISTLE, Lewis Nordan unleashes the hellhounds of his prodigious imagination on one of the most notorious racial killings of the century, the Emmett Till murder...read more

By Lewis Nordan

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Hardcover:

9781565120280 | Algonquin Books, October 1, 1993, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In 1955, in Arrow-Catcher, Mississippi, fourth-grade teacher Alice Conroy, hoping to teach her children something important, takes her class on field trips to the bedside of a terminally burned classmate, the sewage plant, a funeral parlor, and a murder trial

Paperback:

9781565121102 | Reprint edition (Algonquin Books, April 1, 1995), cover price $13.95

Prebinding:

9781435242234 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 18, 2008), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: ALA Notable Book; 1994 Mississippi Writers Award for Fiction; 1994 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

9780613367547 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $24.50

Boy With Loaded Gun: A Memoir

The critically acclaimed author of The Sharpshooter Blues and Lightning Song presents an entertaining memoir about growing up in the Mississippi Delta town of Itta Bena, describing life in a sleepy Southern town, his education, military career, family life, and literary career. 20,000 first printing.

By Lewis Nordan

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9781565121997 | Algonquin Books, January 1, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The author recounts his awkward childhood growing up in Missisippi, his career as a novelist, and his outlook on life

Lightning Song

Product Description: Leroy Dearman is twelve, and he lives on a llama farm in Mississippi. Life is perfect. It's true that his grandfather just died in the attic and that wild dogs kill a baby llama now and then, and it's true that one little sister curses him and the other one wets her pants...read more

By Lewis Nordan

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Hardcover:

9781565120846 | Algonquin Books, January 5, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The story of Leroy Dearman's life on a llama farm in Mississippi describes his family and his coming-of-age, in a direct, hilarious, and bittersweet look at the heartbreak of puberty

Paperback:

9781565122208 | Algonquin Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $10.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780792722830 | Unabridged edition (John Curley & Assoc, April 1, 1999), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Leroy Dearman is twelve, and he lives on a llama farm in Mississippi.

The Sharpshooter Blues

The identity of the Sharpshooter becomes a central theme in a story that introduces such prospective characters as the owner of the local funeral parlor, an avid comic-book reader, a man who shoots refrigerators, and a boy who never grew up

By Lewis Nordan

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Paperback:

9781565121829 | Algonquin Books, January 9, 1997, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The identity of the Sharpshooter becomes a central theme in a story that introduces such prospective characters as the owner of the local funeral parlor, an avid comic-book reader, a man who shoots refrigerators, and a boy who never grew up

Sugar Among the Freaks: Selected Stories

Fifteen short stories selected from the author's first two books offer an early look at his ongoing creation, the fictional town of Arrow Catcher, Mississippi

By Lewis Nordan

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Paperback:

9781565121317 | Algonquin Books, January 5, 1996, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Fifteen short stories selected from the author's first two books offer an early look at his ongoing creation, the fictional town of Arrow Catcher, Mississippi

The Sharpshooter Blues: A Novel

The identity of the Sharpshooter becomes a central theme in a story that introduces such characters as the owner of the local funeral parlor, an avid comic-book reader, a man who shoots refrigerators, and a boy who never grew up. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

By Lewis Nordan

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Hardcover:

9781565120839 | Algonquin Books, January 10, 1995, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The identity of the Sharpshooter becomes a central theme in a story that introduces such prospective characters as the owner of the local funeral parlor, an avid comic-book reader, a man who shoots refrigerators, and a boy who never grew up

Music of the Swamp

Sugar, a little boy growing up in the 1950s, encounters death in its many forms as he discovers a dead man in the swamp, digs up a dead woman from under the house, and sits on a dead druggist in the drugstore

By Lewis Nordan

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Hardcover:

9780945575764 | Algonquin Books, September 1, 1991, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Sugar, a little boy growing up in the 1950s, encounters death in its many forms as he discovers a dead man in the swamp, digs up a dead woman from under the house, and sits on a dead druggist in the drugstore

Paperback:

9781565120167 | Reprint edition (Algonquin Books, January 9, 1992), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Sugar, a little boy growing up in the 1950s, encounters death in its many forms as he discovers a dead man in the swamp, digs up a dead woman from under the house, and sits on a dead druggist in the drugstore

Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair

Affection, revulsion, madness and eccentricity form the subjects for nine stories

By Lewis Nordan

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9780807111246 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, September 1, 1983, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Affection, revulsion, madness and eccentricity form the subjects for nine stories

Paperback:

9780679721642 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, August 1, 1989), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Affection, revulsion, madness and eccentricity form the subjects for nine stories

The All-Girl Football Team: Stories

Short stories portray the experiences of Sugar Mecklin and the other inhabitants of a small town in Mississippi

By Lewis Nordan

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Paperback:

9780394757018 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 1989), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Short stories portray the experiences of Sugar Mecklin and the other inhabitants of a small town in Mississippi

9780807113424 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 1, 1986, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Short stories portray the experiences of Sugar Mecklin and the other inhabitants of a small town in Mississippi

The All-Girl Football Team

Short stories portray the experiences of Sugar Mecklin and the other inhabitants of a small town in Mississippi

By Lewis Nordan

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Hardcover:

9780807113417 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Short stories portray the experiences of Sugar Mecklin and the other inhabitants of a small town in Mississippi

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