Gothic Grit: The Dark World of Flannery O'Connor's Southern Stories
Gothic Grit: The Dark World of Flannery O'Connor's Southern Stories

Author: Derek B. Davis, LSRA

Publisher: Prideful Publications LLC

Published: 2024-05-02

Total Pages: 105

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The subject of Ethan Hawke's 2024 biopic "Wildcat", Flannery O'Connor's incisive explorations into themes traditionally reserved for philosophical or theological discourse, using the medium of Southern Gothic literature, ensure her place not only as a critical figure in American literature but as a profound commentator on the human experience. Her works challenge the reader to confront the darkness within and the potential for transcendence, making her contributions invaluable to the fields of both American literature and moral philosophy. Table of Contents: Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Chapter One: The Life and Legacy of Flannery O'Connor Chapter Two: Writing Career and Success Chapter Three: Themes and Style Chapter Four: Gothic and Southern Gothic Chapter Five: The Grotesque Chapter Six: Decay and Dereliction Chapter Seven: Religion and Spirituality Chapter Eight: Isolation and Alienation Chapter Nine: Realistic Ambiguity and the Supernatural Chapter Ten: Irony and Sardonic Humor Chapter Eleven: Savannah, Georgia Chapter Twelve: Analysis of O'Connor's Key Works Chapter Thirteen: O'Connor's Dark Worldview Chapter Fourteen: Violence and Redemption Chapter Fifteen: O'Connor's Southern Gothic Legacy Chapter Sixteen: Racism Chapter Seventeen: Impact on Literature Chapter Eighteen: Contemporary Authors Chapter Nineteen: Relevance of O'Connor's Work for Modern Gothic Fans Chapter Twenty: Exploring the Southern Gothic Genre Chapter Twenty-one: The Dark Appeal of Flannery O'Connor Chapter Twenty-two: Ethan Hawke's "Wildcat" Chapter Twenty-three: Reflecting on O'Connor's Contributions to Literature

Money Basics
Money Basics

Author: Derek B. Davis

Publisher: Prideful Publications LLC

Published: 2024-05-11

Total Pages: 126

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"Money Basics," is a guide to understanding money from the roots of currency to the thrilling prospects of its future. Throughout history, money has acted as more than just a medium of exchange; it's been a powerful social, political, and economic force that has shaped civilizations. We will start our journey by exploring how money evolved from barter systems, used thousands of years ago, to the coins and banknotes we recognize today. Understanding money is not just about looking to the past, but also about anticipating the future of money. This book explores the digital transformation of money, including cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, and speculates on how they might reshape our everyday transactions and economic systems. Table of Contents: Chapter One: The History of Money Chapter Two: Money versus Currency Chapter Three: Paper Money Chapter Four: Cash on Hand Chapter Five: Physical Currency and Crime Chapter Six: The United States Dollar Chapter Seven: The Cycle of Money Chapter Eight: Forms of Money Today Chapter Nine: The Federal Reserve Chapter Ten: Mad at the Fed Chapter Eleven: Controlling the Flow of Money Chapter Twelve: Deposits in Reserve Chapter Thirteen: Rate Adjustments Chapter Fourteen; Creating Money Chapter Fifteen: Money Supply Chapter Sixteen: Economic Health Chapter Seventeen: The Importance of Economic Health Chapter Eighteen: Leading Economic Indicators Chapter Nineteen: Monitoring Economic Indicators Chapter Twenty: Consumer Confidence Chapter Twenty-one: Consumer Price Index Chapter Twenty-two: The Economic Cycle Chapter Twenty-three: A Currency’s Value Chapter Twenty-four: Value and Trading Money Chapter Twenty-five: Cryptocurrency Chapter Twenty-six: Conclusion

A Feast of Snakes
A Feast of Snakes

Author: Harry Crews

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1998-01-07

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0684842483

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From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. "No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews' creations".--"Washington Post Book World".

A Long Walk to Water
A Long Walk to Water

Author: Linda Sue Park

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0547251270

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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.

The Heavenly Table
The Heavenly Table

Author: Donald Ray Pollock

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2016-07-12

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 0385541309

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From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors. It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in southern Ohio, a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son, Eddie, and his wife, Eula. After Ellsworth is swindled out of his family's entire fortune, his life is put on a surprising, unforgettable, and violent trajectory that will directly lead him to cross paths with the Jewetts. No good can come of it. Or can it? In the gothic tradition of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy with a healthy dose of cinematic violence reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers, the Jewetts and the Fiddlers will find their lives colliding in increasingly dark and horrific ways, placing Donald Ray Pollock firmly in the company of the genre's literary masters.

The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt
The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt

Author: Andrea Bobotis

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2019-07-09

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1492678872

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"Andrea Bobotis is a new, original voice as Southern as they come! In The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt, she unravels a complicated web of dirty Southern secrets. Using masterful writing and a perfectly calculated reveal of damaged history, she ends up weaving a tapestry that is so much more."—LEAH WEISS, bestselling author of If the Creek Don't Rise In the hard-luck cotton town of Bound, South Carolina, some bury their secrets close to home. Others scatter them to the wind and hope they land somewhere far away. Judith Kratt inherited everything her family had to offer—the pie safe, the copper clock, the murder no one talks about. She's presided over the Carolina house quite well, thank you very much, with a little help from her companion, Olva. When her wayward sister suddenly returns, Judith must make an inventory of all that belongs to them—and her sister is determined to include the skeletons the Kratt family had hoped to take to their graves. Interweaving the present with chilling flashbacks from one fateful evening in 1929, Judith pieces together the devastating influence of the Kratt family on their small South Carolina cotton town, learning that the effects of dark family secrets can last a lifetime and beyond. Perfect for fans of Kim Michele Richardson, Hannah Pittard, and Sue Monk Kidd—Andrea Bobotis presents a book of small-town, Southern charm and dark family drama.

Virgin and Other Stories
Virgin and Other Stories

Author: April Ayers Lawson

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0865478708

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A confident and mesmerizing fiction debut, from the winner of the Plimpton Prize Set in the South, at the crossroads of a world that is both secular and devoutly Christian, April Ayers Lawson's stories evoke the inner lives of young women and men navigating sexual, emotional, and spiritual awakenings. In "The Negative Effects of Homeschooling," Conner, sixteen, accompanies his grieving mother to the funeral of her best friend, Charlene, a woman who was once a man. In "The Way You Must Play Always," Gretchen, who looks young even for thirteen, heads into her weekly piano lesson in nervous anticipation of her next illicit meeting with her teacher's brother, Wesley. Thin and sickly, wasting from a brain tumor, Wesley spends his days watching pornography and smoking pot, and yet Gretchen can only interpret his advances as the first budding of love. And in the title story, Jake grapples with the growing chasm between him and his wife, Sheila, who was still a virgin when they wed. At a cocktail party thrown by a wealthy donor to his hospital, he ponders the intertwining imperatives of marriage--sex and love, violation and trust, spirituality and desire--even as he finds himself succumbing to the temptations of his host. Self-assured and sensual, Virgin and Other Stories is the first work of a young writer of unusual mastery.

The Devil All the Time
The Devil All the Time

Author: Donald Ray Pollock

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0385535058

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Now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson A dark and riveting vision of 1960s America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree. In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic over­tones of Flannery O’Connor at her most haunting. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrifi­cial blood he pours on his “prayer log.” There’s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial kill­ers, who troll America’s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There’s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte’s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right. Donald Ray Pollock braids his plotlines into a taut narrative that will leave readers astonished and deeply moved. With his first novel, he proves himself a master storyteller in the grittiest and most uncompromising American grain.

Women & Other Animals
Women & Other Animals

Author: Bonnie Jo Campbell

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2002-09

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0743203070

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An anthology of stories on human relationships. The story, Eating Aunt Victoria, traces the relationship of teenagers and their mother's lesbian lover, while in Bringing Home the Bones an accident in which a woman loses a leg improves her relations with her children.

The Dog of the South
The Dog of the South

Author: Charles Portis

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2007-06-05

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1590206584

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“[Charles Portis] understood, and conveyed, the grain of America, in ways that may prove valuable in future to historians trying to understand what was decent about us as a nation.” --Donna Tartt, New York Times Book Review Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray's cards, shotgun and car. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they've gone. He takes off after them, as does an irritatingly tenacious bail bondsman, both following the romantic couple's spending as far as Mexico. There Ray meets Dr Reo Symes, the seemingly down-on-his-luck and rather eccentric owner of a beaten up and broken down bus, who needs a ride to Belize. The further they drive, in a car held together by coat-hangers and excesses of oil, the wilder their journey gets. But they're not going to give up easily.