Mark Childress

In Alabama during the racially restless summer of 1965, an orphan boy comes of age, and his aunt escapes from an unhappy marriage

Crazy in Alabama

Struggling with his outsider status after moving to a small Mississippi town at the beginning of his junior year, 1970s teen Daniel Musgrove befriends fellow misfit Tim, with whom he becomes embroiled in a devastating chain of events following a car accident from which the community's first African-American prom queen awakens believing she is white. 25,000 first printing.

A Novel

One Mississippi

Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle. Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative, and discreet, means of income. In Georgia's case it is six well-heeled lovers -- one for each day of the week, with Mondays off -- none of whom knows about the others. But when the married preacher who has been coming to call (Saturdays) decides to confess their affair in front of the whole congregation, Georgia must take drastic measures to stop him. In George Bottoms, Mark Childress proves once again his unmistakable skill for combining the hilarious and the absurd to reveal the inner workings of the rebellious human heart.

Georgia Bottoms

The latest novel by the author of Crazy in Alabama offers a humorous and poignant fantasy about a singer-songwriter who finds a strange new refuge from his overwhelming success. Reprint.

Gone for Good

Set in Alabama at the turn of the century, this novel tells the story of Callie Bates, her oft estranged preacher-husband, and her adoring children, one of which is believed to possess magical powers

A World Made of Fire

East Tupelo was a sprinkling of poor houses at the scratched-out back edge of Mississippi--and the birthplace of a boy who would become the greatest rock legend of his time. In Tender, novelist Mark Childress has redefined the American epic. He takes us on a wild ride through the last three decades as his fictional hero, Leroy Kirby, makes his meteoric rise to stardom, from the poverty-stricken child of an overprotective mother and absent father, to an icon who stands for everything American--a role that will ultimately consume him. After reading Tender, you will never think about the South, fame, or rock-and-roll the same way again.

Tender

A man who can’t pronounce “anonymous” In high office, seems rather ominous. We don’t have to get all Deuteronomous: Brains and power are rarely synonymous. "I love every word Mark Childress writes, including this new compilation of his great political writing. He is brilliant and hilarious. " – Anne Lamott "You, sir, are a libtard!" – Glenn Beck New York Times bestselling author Mark Childress was like many liberal Americans whose life veered off the tracks as Donald Trump rose to power. In his day-by-day journal, Childress tirelessly pursues the funny side of America’s descent into Trumpism. From Viet Nam to New Orleans to the Women’s March and beyond, the author spins variations on all the absurd, ridiculous, head-exploding, enraging, unbelievable moments of the Trump Years. The book includes photos, tweets, teets, doggerel, lyrics, fake news, and all manner of hijinks, twaddle, & flimflammery. If Trump & Company drive you crazy, but you're almost ready to laugh - this is the book for you.

A Journal of the Trump Years By a Crazed Snowflake Employing Rhyming Insults, Limericks, Loathing, Hyperbole, Secret Transcripts, Show Tunes, Mockery, Rants, Jokes, & Rude Memes

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