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The Age of Infidelity and Other Stories
In the spirit of Muriel Spark and Walker Percy, The Age of Infidelity's eleven stories embrace the comic, the absurd, and the dead serious. Faithless parents betray their children, the young betray the old, and lovers betray each other--but somehow these characters cling to hope. Aging white cheerleaders shout through an online megaphone, remembering a time when racial equality seemed almost possible; a teenager endures her father's abandonment as her mother's psychotic episodes pick up pace; an old couple on the lam from the Constitutional Guard of the future hides out in a garage reminiscent of our consumerist past. In an age many call post-religious, these characters want to believe in so...
How I Got Him Back, Or, Under the Cold Moon's Shine
Mary Faith Rapple wonders when her lover will stop making promise he can’t keep—and leave his wife at last. But Mary Faith isn’t the only woman in town with man troubles, for everyone has someone they want, someone they can’t have, and someone they want to forget. Sayers has a gift for voice and the honest, gritty commentary about human behavior. This book offers her own version of the humor that Southern writers from Eudora Welty to Flannery O’Connor to Reynolds Price use so tellingly. Sayers’ novel is a skillful and well-crafted book which should appeal to readers of intelligent fiction.
The Distance Between Us
Franny smokes grass and falls in love as often as possible while Steward is an obedient trust-fund kid doted upon by Old South grandparents, and one of their connections is their inescapable longing for the lowlands of Due East, South Carolina.
Who Do You Love?
The author of Due East and How I Got Him Back spins another vibrant, compassionate tale set in Due East, South Carolina. Transplanted Yankee Delores Rooney and her incredible family experience the growing pains of their own lives--and the nation's--on the eve of JFK's assassination.
Age of Infidelity and Other Stories
In the spirit of Muriel Spark and Walker Percy, The Age of Infidelity's eleven stories embrace the comic, the absurd, and the dead serious. Faithless parents betray their children, the young betray the old, and lovers betray each other--but somehow these characters cling to hope. Aging white cheerleaders shout through an online megaphone, remembering a time when racial equality seemed almost possible; a teenager endures her father's abandonment as her mother's psychotic episodes pick up pace; an old couple on the lam from the Constitutional Guard of the future hides out in a garage reminiscent of our consumerist past. In an age many call post-religious, these characters want to believe in so...
The Powers
1941 is a year of drama and spectacle for Americans. Joe DiMaggio’s record-breaking hitting streak enlivens the summer, and winter begins with the shock and horror of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The news from Europe is bleak, especially for the Jewish population. Joltin’ Joe, possessing a sweet swing and range in center, also has another gift: he can see the future. And he sees dark times ahead. In her inventive novel The Powers, Valerie Sayers, in both realistic and fantastic chapters, transports the reader to an age filled with giants: Dorothy Day and Walker Evans appear beside DiMaggio. The problems they face, from Catholic antisemitism to the challenge of pacifism in the face of overwhelming evil, play out in very public media, among them the photography of Evans and the baseball of DiMaggio. At once magical and familiar, The Powers is a story of witness and moral responsibility that will, like Joe DiMaggio, find some unlikely fans.
Due East
Mary Faith Rapple is smart, pretty and very pregnant. Certainly not unusual, even in the sleepy town of Due East, South Carolina. But when Mary Faith announces that it will be a virgin birth, and her father, owner of a local filling station, vows to uncover the truth, sparks begin to fly!
Brain Fever
A man suffering frequent nervous breakdowns decides to spare his nearest and dearest the experience. He is Tim Rooney of South Carolina, who on the eve of his wedding recognizes the oncoming symptoms. So he cashes his savings and hits the road. The novel describes his blackouts, the various hitchhikers he picks up on the way and his plunge into madness in New York where he starts giving away his money. Fortunately, his fiancee catches up in time.
Due East
Mary Faith Rapple is smart, pretty and very pregnant. Certainly not unusual, even in the sleepy town of Due East, South Carolina. But when Mary Faith announces that it will be a virgin birth, and her father, owner of a local filling station, vows to uncover the truth, sparks begin to fly!
