One Mississippi

Mark Childress (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2007
Little, Brown & Company (Verlag)
978-0-316-01212-6 (ISBN)

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"There is nothing small about Childress's fine novel. It's big in all the ways that matter - big in daring, big in insight, and big-hearted. Really, really big-hearted." -New Orleans Times-PicayuneThis exuberantly acclaimed novel by the author of the bestselling Crazy in Alabama tells an uproarious and moving story about family, best friends, first love, and surviving the scariest years of your life. You need only one best friend, Daniel Musgrove figures, to make it through high school alive. After his family moves to Mississippi just before his junior year, Daniel finds fellow outsider Tim Cousins. The two become inseparable, sharing a fascination with ridicule, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, and Arnita Beecham, the most bewitching girl at Minor High. But soon things go terribly wrong. The friends commit a small crime that grows larger and larger, and threatens to engulf the whole town. Arnita, the first black prom queen in the history of the school, is injured and wakes up a different person. And Daniel, Tim, and their families are swept up in a shocking chain of events."Wise, riveting, hilarious, painful, gentle, and ferocious, One Mississippi is a wonderful read."
-Anne Lamott"A Tilt-a-Whirl that flings the reader from comedy to calamity...Childress is a fabulist in the manner of John Irving." -Atlanta Journal-Constitution"By turns rollicking and troubling, as provocative as it is droll, One Mississippi is about as easy to resist as a riptide. This critic's advice is to go with its powerful flow." -Raleigh News & Observer

Mark Childress was born in Monroeville, Alabama. He is the author of five previous novels and three books for children. He has lived in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, California, Costa Rica, and currently lives in New York City.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.9.2007
Reihe/Serie	Back Bay Readers' Pick
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-316-01212-2 / 0316012122
ISBN-13	978-0-316-01212-6 / 9780316012126
Zustand	Neuware