Parrish, tim (22 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Offers a riveting, unflinching account of the author's spiral into racist violence during the latter years of desegregation in 1960s and 1970s Baton Rouge. Fear and What Follows is an unparalleled story of the complex roots of southern, urban, working-class racism and white flight, as well as a story of family, love, and the possibility of redemption.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. This is an old-fashioned, modern novel that is both dark and funny. Its central character, Jimmy Strawhorn, grows up on a ranch in West Texas thinking he's an orphan but is summoned to Baton Rouge, where he discovers his past is stranger than he can imagine. Winner of the 2012 George Garrett Prize for Fiction.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED* Fine in Fine dust jacket. First edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good - Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good - Fine. First Edition. A collection of nine stories of working class men from the Baton Rough, LA area. Inscribed by Parrish on the title page. Minimal edge wear to the DJ. A very good or better copy. Signed by Author(s).

with dustjacket, hardcover. Zustand: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDsm4to; 263 pages; good exlibrary hardcover with dustjacket and library binding glued or taped to boards by previous owner; library pockets labels and stamps; tips bumped; spine head and heal bumped; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking. …

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 227 pages. 7.00x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

GAM. Zustand: Brand New. brdgm edition. 200 pages. 3.75x7.75x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Gritty short stories set in the haze of Baton Rouge, Louisiana ''Headlong, funny, sharply observed, the stories of Red Stick Men are a joy to read. Tim Parrish is a splendid writer with a remarkable literary future.'' - Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories Like Mississippi River humidity, the sweat and the factory smoke of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pervade Tim Parrish's fiction. His characters in these nine working-class stories are by no means good-ole-boy clichés. These are blue-collar, urban southerners, trying to ''do good'' -- or at least to find ways of doing less damage to themselves, their co-workers, and loved ones. They are always on the verge of disasters that emanate from the hard living they endure in the city they call ''Red Stick.'' Five of these stories follow a family from the face-to-face racial tensions of the 1960s through the distant CNN blare of the Persian Gulf War. Plotting a family's history -- the ups and downs of a Vietnam vet, a mother with lupus, and a sensitive boy striving to understand his parents and neighbors -- this quintet has the satisfying arc of a novella. Other stories light the panorama of Baton Rouge with a refinery-fire glow. In ''Roustabout'' a New Wave rocker joins an oil platform crew and loses his heart to a woman engineer and a male crewman. In ''Smell of a Car'' a pipe-supply worker tries to aid a gunshot victim and his daughter, only to find his own life is a shambles. In ''After the River'' wayward lovers find meaning in the midst of a catastrophic flood. The absurd complexities of life in industrial south Louisiana propel these stories. Each is connected by Parrish's unique sense of Baton Rouge as an Old South city made exotic and forbidding by its New South problems -- crack houses and handguns, layoffs and grinding wages, pollution and isolation. War, hard times, and a landscape always on the edge of apocalypse from flood and fire haunt the children and working stiffs of his stories. Parrish captures the ironic humor of people who live on oozing ground near a horizon that burns at night. His Louisiana is bizarre and beautiful, tragic and hilarious. As the writer Moira Crone says, ''The whole of the book forms an expressionistic piece with a surrealistic edge. These stories just go all the way.'' Tim Parrish has served as a professor and director of creative writing at Southern Connecticut State University since 1994. He has been published in numerous periodicals, including New England Review, Southern Exposure, Louisiana Literature, and Shenandoah. He lived in Baton Rouge for twenty-seven years.…

Zustand: New. Like Mississippi River humidity, the sweat and the factory smoke of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pervade Tim Parrish s fiction. His characters in these nine working-class stories are by no means good-ole-boy cliches. These are blue-collar, urban southerners, try.