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The Abbott Anthology
Hello, my name is Shirley Abbott and this is my first collection of poetry. I started taking poetry seriously when I started university, however, I had written the occasional poem beforehand. This collection features the poems 'Caravan Poem' and 'Season Travel' which I wrote as a child when I was 8 and 9 years old, I decided to include them in this collection as a tribute to myself when I was younger to show that I have finally achieved my goal of getting my work published. Thank you so much for supporting me and my dream.
The Bookmaker's Daughter
Richly detailed with family anecdotes, feminist insight, history, sociology, and Southern mythology, this memoir chronicles Abbott's volatile relationship with her father, a bookie at an illegal gambling house. "A moving attempt to understand . . . how a bitter failure of a man was also the father of a real maker of books".--Valerie Sayers, New York Times Book Review.
Womenfolks
Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.
Love's Apprentice
Shirley Abbott's new memoir charts her amorous education as a woman coming of emotional age in the second half of the twentieth century. Love's Apprentice will resonate with every woman who, despite her hard-earned knowledge of the limitations of love, will not be cured of it.
The Future of Love
"[An] impressive first novel . . . Abbott's nuanced take on New York after the fall is spot-on, reminding us that love is about survival as well as loss." —People Set in New York in 2001, Abbott's debut novel invites us into the lives of good people grappling with the hard choices and the sacrifices they must make to find love. In the manner of a contemporary Edith Wharton, Shirley Abbott exposes the inner lives and the tangled relationships of eight characters—before and after New York's tragedy—and forces both them and the reader to see the world in a new way. Having assembled a smart, compelling ensemble, reminiscent of HBO's Six Feet Under, Abbott allows us to see the possibility of happiness even as the city itself is tested. With humor and profound empathy, she has crafted a novel that runs deep into the heart of our need for commitment from friends, lovers, and family.
From Who Am I? to Who I Am!
Shirley Abbott Cochran. Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Great Grandmother, and Have lots of Sisters and Brothers in Christ. Came from a Disfunctional Family, so she knows what it is to be broken and hurt. Loves to Teach The Word, To give Hope. Hoping this Book reaches out to the Hurting and Broken. To the Drug Addicts and Alcoholics, The Abused. After All, this is who Jesus came for, who He died and Bled for.
Critical Companion to Flannery O'Connor
Examines the life and writings of Flannery O'Connor, including detailed synopses of her works, explanations of literary terms, biographies of friends and family, and social and historical influences.
Things You Need to Hear
Things You Need to Hear gathers memories of Arkansans from all over the state with widely different backgrounds. In their own words, these people tell of the things they did growing up in the early twentieth century to get an education, what they ate, how they managed to get by during difficult times, how they amused themselves and earned a living, and much more. Some of Margaret Bolsterli's "informants," as she calls them, are famous (Johnny Cash, Maya Angelou, Levon Helm, Joycelyn Elders), but many more are not. Their vivid personal stories have been taken from published works and from original interviews conducted by Bolsterli. All together, these tales preserve memories of ways of life that are compelling, entertaining, and certainly well worth remembering.
