Trailerpark
Trailerpark

Author: Russell Banks

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0062335855

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"Each story is uncommonly good. . . surprising, lively writing and believably human characters. . . . Banks has a terrific eye, mordant yet affectionate, for the bric-a-brac and the pathos of the American dream." — Washington Post Book World In this series of related short stories, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers gripping, realistic portrayals of individual Americans and paints a portrait of New England life that is at once dark, witty, and revealing. Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs and screams at people to stay away from her babies, Claudel in number 5 thinks he is lucky until his wife burns down their trailer and runs off with Howie Leeke, and Noni in number 7 has telephone conversations with Jesus and tells the police about them.

Singlewide
Singlewide

Author: Sonya Salamon

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2017-10-15

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1501712322

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In Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the role of the trailer park as a source of affordable housing. America’s trailer parks, most in rural places, shelter an estimated 12 million people, and the authors show how these parks serve as a private solution to a pressing public need. Singlewide considers the circumstances of families with school-age children in trailer parks serving whites in Illinois, Hispanics in New Mexico, and African Americans in North Carolina. By looking carefully at the daily lives of families who live side by side in rows of manufactured homes, Salamon and MacTavish draw conclusions about the importance of housing, community, and location in the families’ dreams of opportunities and success as signified by eventually owning land and a conventional home. Working-poor rural families who engage with what Salamon and MacTavish call the "mobile home industrial complex" may become caught in an expensive trap starting with their purchase of a mobile home. A family that must site its trailer in a land-lease trailer park struggles to realize any of the anticipated benefits of homeownership. Seeking to break down stereotypes, Salamon and MacTavish reveal the important place that trailer parks hold within the United States national experience. In so doing, they attempt to integrate and normalize a way of life that many see as outside the mainstream, suggesting that families who live in trailer parks, rather than being "trailer trash," culturally resemble the parks’ neighbors who live in conventional homes.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical
The Great American Trailer Park Musical

Author: Betsy Kelso

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780822221371

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THE STORY: There's a new tenant at Armadillo Acres--and she's wreaking havoc all over Florida's most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil-loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth collector husb

Trailer Park Trickster
Trailer Park Trickster

Author: David R. Slayton

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1094069299

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They are my harvest, and I will reap them all. Returning to Guthrie, Oklahoma, for the funeral of his mysterious and beloved aunt Sue, Adam Binder once again finds himself in the path of deadly magic when a dark druid begins to prey on members of Adam’s family. It all seems linked to the death of Adam’s father many years ago—a man who may have somehow survived as a warlock. Watched by the police, separated from the man who may be the love of his life, compelled to seek the truth about his connection to the druid, Adam learns more about his family and its troubled history than he ever bargained for, and finally comes face-to-face with the warlock he has vowed to stop. Meanwhile, beyond the Veil of the mortal world, Argent the Queen of Swords and Vic the Reaper undertake a dangerous journey to a secret meeting of the Council of Races . . . where the sea elves are calling for the destruction of humanity.

King of the Trailer Park
King of the Trailer Park

Author: Timothy Benson

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2015-10-12

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1491777818

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Lincoln Carr has a big problem, sort of. Hes the owner of a successful advertising agency, engaged to a beautiful woman, and enjoys the wonderful normalcy of his life in every way. But when he wins a fortune playing the lottery, he quickly realizes his life will never be anything close to normal. He knows large amounts of money can have a strange effect on people, and he also knows his new situation gives him the potential for doing both good and bad things with that money. His winnings, along with his skill in todays media and his love for practical jokes, soon lead him deeper into dark and questionable behaviors. Enjoying the influence that comes with enormous wealth, he sees his pranks escalate into elaborate con games that affect the lives of his friends as well as strangers. Despite his promise to himself to remain grounded and normal, he struggles when his newly acquired power leads him into the political arena and he finds the line between good and bad has become hard to walk. With a cast of colorful characters navigating their way through modern life, King of the Trailer Park offers a darkly humorous look at the new politics of America and the ongoing decline of the culture. Set in todays polarized world where personal information is too easily shared, where the media is seldom questioned, and where perception is sold as reality, this story paints a troubling picture of the road that lies ahead.

It Came From The Trailer Park: Volume 1
It Came From The Trailer Park: Volume 1

Author: Bill Oberst

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10-31

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 9781951768393

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Do you love sparkly vampires? Well too bad, because you won't find a single one of those fancy-dancy bloodsuckers anywhere in this collection! It Came From The Trailer Park began as a fun idea to revisit the Classic Horror and Old-School Creature Feature genres with a hefty helping of B-rate tropes thrown in for good measure. Who doesn't love a good Bruce Cambell or classic Vincent Price flick on a dark and dreary night? Emmy award winner Bill Oberst Jr. opens the collection and sets the stage for the stories to come. From aliens to demons to werewolves and so many more, you're sure to fall in love with these tales of the Macabre. So come on in. Take a load off. And get yourself ready for nineteen unforgettable tales, straight from the Trailer Park. Stories written by: Sara Brooke, Mel Todd, Charity Ayres, Amie Gibbons, William Alan Webb, Philip K. Booker, J.F. Posthumus, JL Curtis, John Drake, Michael K. Falciani, Michael Gants, Rob Howell, R.J. Ladon, LawDog, Benjamin Tyler Smith, Kevin Steverson, Christopher Woods, Jenny Wren, and William Joseph Roberts. From Trailer-trash to armageddon survivalists, this book ROCKS! -- Faith Hunter NYT and USAToday bestseller

Trailer Park Heart
Trailer Park Heart

Author: Rachel Higginson

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2018-10-09

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781728635767

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Trailer park born and raised. It's my legacy. That's how my mama lived. And that's how her mama lived. It's the life I was born into and it's the life I swore I would leave the second I was old enough to make it out.Only legacies have a funny way of sneaking up on you. An innocent decision the night of high school graduation led to a series of complications in my plans to escape. Seven years later, I've resigned myself to this small town and the roots I'm tied to. Nothing could make me leave. And nothing could make me spill the secrets that keep me here.Until he walks back into town with a chip on his shoulder and a stupid hunch nobody else in town has been smart enough to follow.Levi Cole is my opposite. Born on the right side of the tracks with family money to spare, he's the kind of black sheep that can afford to be rebellious--because his family will always pay for his mistakes. He's also the only living heir to Cole Family Farms, after his brother Logan was killed in duty seven years ago.He sees something in my life that he thinks he has a right to. But he's wrong. And obnoxious. And he needs to take his stubborn good looks and that intense way he looks at me and go back to wherever it was he came from. I know better than to trust men like him. I was born and raised in a trailer park, I know nothing good happens to girls like me--girls with trailer park lives and trailer park hearts. Especially from gorgeous, kind, pigheaded men like him.

Trailer Park People
Trailer Park People

Author: Drea Knufken

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-09-10

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781515035084

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The American cultural stereotype might equate trailers with survival, but here in Boulder, people are choosing the trailer park as a way to thrive. Through interviews and photographs "Trailer Park People" explores the value of downsizing, settling in, growing a garden, creating community, and investing in less. When we explored this mobile home park in the heart of Boulder, Colorado, we found a hub of conscious living. By choosing a tiny space, residents find they can live more sustainably and simply, in one of America's most beautiful cities.

Trailer Park Boys
Trailer Park Boys

Author: Josh Blaylock

Publisher: Devil's Due Comics

Published: 2021-11-16

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781737050599

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Trailer Park Boys is a documentary-stye comedy about the inhabitants of Sunnyvale Trailer Park, located in beautiful Nova Scotia, Canada. Like the show, this graphic novel antholgy follows the exploits of Sunnyvale's most notorious residents, Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles as the attempt to make money through various outrageous and greasy (and mostly illegal) get-rich-quick schemes, hotly pursued by the park's drunken supervisor, Jim Lahey, and his shirtless sidekick Randy. The Trailer Park Boys Get A F#¢*!ng Comic Book! The boys are back, in comic form, for a hilarious, filthy, and totally unpredictable anthology series. There's guns, babes, booze and bud. Plus, meet the Prehistoric Park Boys, see The Green Bastard wrestle and learn the secret origin of Julian's answering machine.