Product Description: As a season for family, feasting, gifts, and giving, Christmastime brings with it a host of traditions, beliefs, and stories. With an impressive ensemble of award-winning writers, including Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler, critically acclaimed Olympia Vernon, and Guggenheim Fellow Elizabeth Spencer, the 11 stories in this anthology offer a range of poignant ruminations on the Christmas season...read more

An assortment of Christmas stories, essays, and illustrations celebrates Southern authors, including tales by Bailey White, Rick Bass, Ellen Gilchrist, Marianne Gingher, George Singleton, Michael Parker, Steve Yarbrough, Lynne Barrett, Bret Anthony Johnston, Stephen Marion, and Aaron Gwyn.

Featuring the contributions of some of the South's finest contemporary fiction writers, this special holiday anthology features short fiction by Doris Betts, Larry Brown, Jill McCorkle, Carolyn Haines, Clyde Edgerton, Gail Godwin, Michael Knight, Donald Harrington, Ellen Douglas, and Silas House, accompanied by specially commisioned original watercolor paintings.

The spirit of a Southern Christmas, past and present, is captured in a collection of short fiction by some of the region's finest contemporary fiction writers, including Robert Olen Butler, Donna Tartt, Lee Smith, Tim Gautreaux, Mary Ward Brown, Richard Ford, Tim McLaurin, Fred Chappell, Julia Ridley Smith, and Valerie Sayers.

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