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New Appalachian Books by George Brosi And Now the Magpie. Helen Carper, Editor. Charleston, West Virginia: Mountain State Press, 1987. 184 pages. Trade paperback. $7.95 This book contains a selection ofwinning entries in the Annual Awards Competition of West Virginia Writers, Inc. 1983-1986. Prose pieces, poetry, short stones, and prayers are some of the different writing forms included. Benedict, Pinckney. Town Smokes. Princeton, New Jersey: Ontario Review Press, 1987. 168 pages. Trade paperback. $9.95. "Town Smokesintroducesayoungwriterofexceptionalgifts andpromise. The stories are funny and horrific by turns, poignant, painful, beautifully modulated-storytelling at its best." -Joyce Carol Oates. The author is only twenty-three years old and still enrolled at the graduate writing program at the University of Iowa, yet tiiis first collection has been selected by the New York Times as a "Notable Book" for 1987. Capote, Truman. IRemember Grandpa. Atlanta, Georgia: Peachtree Publishers, 1987. 37 pages illustrated by Barry Moser. Hardback in dust jacket. $14.95. Written by the late Truman Capote at the age of twenty-two as a gift for an aunt, this charming short story tells of a young boy who is suddenly wrenched from the only home he has everknown-the West Virginia farm where his grandparents live. Wellwritten and poignant. Carerra, Kathleen. Nantahala Love Feast. Radford, Virginia: Commonwealth Press, 1987. 195 pages. Hardback in dust jacket. $15.95. Jess Carr, owner of Commonwealth Press, reputedly wrote this romance novel published undera woman's pen name. It concerns an Atlanta socialite who seeks the solitude of the North Carolina mountains after jilting her bethrothed. Carr, Jess. Intruder in the Wind. Radford, Virginia: Commonwealth Press, 1987. 190 pages. Hardback in dust jacket. $15.95. Set in Corbin, Kentucky, the convoluted plot ofthis novel begins when a baby born of in-vitro-fertilization is stolen by a golden eagle! ?George Brosi owns and operates the Appalachian Bookstore in Berea and publishes the bimonthly AppalachianMountainBooks. Healsosellsbooks throughmailorderstoclientsinallpartsofthecountry. If readers need more information about any ofthe above listings, write him at 123 Walnut Street, Berea, Kentucky 40403. 67 The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe. Francis E. Skipp, editor. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1987. 621 pages, indexed. Hardback with dust jacket. $24.95. The fifty-eight short stories presentedhere comprise the most comprehensive collection of Wolfe's stories ever put together, some never before published in any book or periodical. With a foreword by James Dickey, this volume should help to deepen our appreciation of Wolfe's great contribution to American literature. Douglas, John. Shawnee Alley Fire. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. 215 pages. Hardback in dust jacket. $15.95. ". . .quietly enthralling and memorably evocative. . .the most auspicious of the many recent mystery debuts." -Kirkus Reviews. "A mystery with real depth...also a Eowerful socialhistory." -Publisher's Weekly. TheauthornowlivesinWestVirginia ut grew up in Cumberland, Maryland. Gupton, Oscar W. and Swope, Fred C. Fall Wildflowers ofthe Blue Ridge and Great SmokyMountains. Charlottesville,Virginia: UniversityofVirginiaPress, 1987. 208 pages with 100 full-color photographs. Hardback with a pictorial cover, issued without a dust jacket. $12.95. Theheartofthisusefulandattractively-pricedbookisonehundredsetsoffacingpages arranged according to flower color. On the right side is a color photograph ofa wild flower and on the left side is written commentary. Since most wildflower books emphasize spring wildflowers, this is a particularly useful volume. The authors are biology professors at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. Fleischer, Leonore. Dolly: HereIComeAgain. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: PaperJacks, 1987. 238 pages. Mass market paperback with a black-and-white photo section. $3.95. A winsome biography ofthecountry music starfromthe mountains ofSevierCounty, Tennessee. Although the author did not enjoy a special relationship with the subject, she has done a good job of writing the basic story of Dolly Parton's life in a lively and interesting way. Fox, John, Jr. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, reprinted, 1987. 322 pages. Hardback in dustjacket. $22.00. Trade paperback. $10.00. Published in 1903 to good reviews and becoming a best-selling commercial success, this novelhas maintaineditsunusualpopularityeversince. Itscombinationofcolorful characters and well-developed plot signaled the end of the era when "local color" literature could satisfy the reading public and the romantic novel flourished. What may...

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