Michael Parker
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A sky-blue car that has been present in pivotal life moments for several people becomes a source of contention and then alliance between Marcus, who is fleeing the consequences of his unrealized ambitions, and Maria, who would make amends in her hometown.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Set along the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the 1800's and the 1970s, the novel follows Theodosia Burr, daughter of Aaron Burr, who by many accounts was captured by pirates and lived out the rest of her life on a remote island, and the island's descendants hundreds of years later.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the dynamic between two sisters: the pragmatic Lorena and the chimerical Elise. Their connection to each other supersedes all else, until the arrival of a schoolteacher sunders the sisters' relationship as they both begin to fall for him. With poetic intensity and the deadpan humor of Paulette Jiles and Charles Portis, Parker reminds us...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, an imprint of Workman Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl -- a loner, dreamer, lover of music and words -- meets Tina, the new girl in town. Tina convinces Earl to drive her to see her mother in Austin, where Earl and Tina are quickly separated. Two days later, Earl is being questioned by the police about Tina's disappearance and the blood in the trunk of his car. But Earl can't remember what happened in Austin, and with little financial...
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