The Fred Chappell reader / Fred Chappell ; introduction by Dabney Stuart.
| Author/creator | Chappell, Fred |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Uncorrected proof. |
| Publication Info | New York : St. Martin's Press, [1986] |
| Description | xxi, 491 pages ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Works. Selections. 1986 |
| Contents | From It is time, Lord, chapters 1-3 -- From The inkling, chapters 1-3 -- Dagon -- From The gaudy place, chapter 1: Arkie -- From I am one of you forever -- From Moments of light. "Mrs. Franklin ascends"; "Thatch retaliates"; "Moments of light"; "The thousand ways"; "Children of strikers"; "Blue dive" -- Uncollected stories. "Linnaeus forgets"; "Notes toward a theory of flight" -- From The world between the eyes. "February"; "Tiros II"; "Death of W.H. Auden"; "Seated figure." |
| Contents | From Midquest. "The river awakening in the sea"; "My grandmother washes her feet"; "Cleaning the well"; "Dead soldiers"; "Rimbaud fire letter to Jim Applewhite"; "My grandfather's church goes up"; Burning the Frankenstein monster: elegiac letter to Richard Dillard"; "Second wind"; "My father's hurricane"; "Three sheets in the wind: Virgil Campbell confesses"; "Remembering Wind Mountain at Sunset"; "My mother's hard row to hoe"; "My father washes his hands"; "Susan's morning dream of her garden"; "My grandmother's dream of plowing"; "Earthsleep." |
| Contents | From Castle Tzingal. "The homunculus"; "The admiral"; "Song for disembodied voice"; "The queen"; "Epilogue: song for disembodied voice" -- From Source. "Child in the fog"; "Humility"; "Awakening to music"; "Narcissus and echo"; "Recovery of sexual desire after a bad cold"; "Rib"; "The virtues"; "Message"; "Forever Mountain." |
| Local note | Autographed by Fred Chappell on half-title. Stuart Wright Book Collection #124.33. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (page 491). |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011 |
| Genre/form | Horror fiction. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | Stuart Wright Collection | PS3553.H298 A6 1986 | ✔ Available | Request Material |