{"product_id":"still-in-print-jan-nordby-gretlund-9781570039430","title":"Still in Print: The Southern Novel Today","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn insightful guidebook to some of the best examples of modern Southern fiction, as selected by an international group of critics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStill in Print\u003c\/i\u003e, eighteen southern novels published since 1997 fall under the careful scrutiny of an international cast of accomplished literary critics to identify the very best of recent writings in the genre. These essays highlight the praiseworthy efforts of a pantheon of novelists celebrating and challenging regionality, unearthing manifestations of the past in the present, and looking to the future with wit and healthy skepticism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganized around shared themes of history, place, humor, and malaise, the novels discussed here interrogate southern culture and explore the region's promise for the future. Four novels reconsider the Civil War and its aftermath as Charles Frazier, Kaye Gibbons, Josephine Humphreys, and Pam Durban revisit the past and add fresh insights to contemporary discussions of race and gender through their excursions into history. The novels by Steve Yarbrough, Larry Brown, Chris Offutt, Barry Hannah, and James Lee Burke demonstrate a keen sense of place, rooted in a South marked by fundamentalism, poverty, violence, and rampant prejudice but still capable of promise for some unseen future. The comic fiction of George Singleton, Clyde Edgerton, James Wilcox, Donald Harington, and Lewis Nordan shows how southern humor still encompasses customs and speech reflected in concrete places. Ron Rash, Richard Ford, and Cormac McCarthy probe the depths of human existence, often with disturbing results, as they write about protagonists cut off from their own humanity and desperate to reconnect with the human race. Diverse in content but unified in genre, these particular novels have been nominated by the contributors to \u003ci\u003eStill in Print\u003c\/i\u003e for long-term survival as among the best modern representations of the southern novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing: \u003cbr\u003eM. Thomas Inge on Charles Frazier's \u003ci\u003eCold Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClara Juncker on Josephine Humphreys's \u003ci\u003eNowhere Else on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKathryn McKee on Kaye Gibbons's \u003ci\u003eOn the Occasion of My Last Afternoon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJan Nordby Gretlund on Pam Durban's \u003ci\u003eSo Far Back\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTara Powell on Percival Everett's \u003ci\u003eErasure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom Dasher on Steve Yarbrough's \u003ci\u003eThe Oxygen Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean Cash on Larry Brown's \u003ci\u003eFay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarl Wieck on Chris Offutt's \u003ci\u003eThe Good Brother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOwen W. Gilman Jr. on Barry Hannah's \u003ci\u003eYonder Stands Your Orphan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHans H. Skei on James Lee Burke's Crusader's \u003ci\u003eCross\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Israel on George Singleton's \u003ci\u003eWork Shirts for Madmen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Grammer on Clyde Edgerton's \u003ci\u003eThe Bible Salesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScott Romine on James Wilcox's \u003ci\u003eHeavenly Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdwin T. Arnold on Donald Harington's \u003ci\u003eEnduring\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarcel Arbeit on Lewis Nordan's \u003ci\u003eLightning Song\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas  rvold Bjerre on Ron Rash's \u003ci\u003eOne Foot in Eden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. on Richard Ford's \u003ci\u003eThe Lay of the Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Gray on Cormac McCarthy's \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jan Nordby Gretlund\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1570039437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781570039430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Jan Nordby Gretlund","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48518914343167,"sku":"9781570039430","price":114.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_84c1f87a-4381-44d3-b839-71ad84a1afb0.jpg?v=1778736137","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/still-in-print-jan-nordby-gretlund-9781570039430","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}