One Mississippi by Mark Childress

One Mississippi by Mark Childress

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-Picayune

This 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 1957 in Monroeville, Alabama and grew up in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. After graduation from the University of Alabama in 1978, Childress was a reporter for The Birmingham News, Features Editor of Southern Living magazine, and Regional Editor of The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Childress is the author of six novels: A World Made of Fire (Knopf, 1984), V For Victor (Knopf, 1988) Tender (Harmony, 1990), Crazy in Alabama (Putnam, 1993), and Gone for Good, (Knopf, 1988) and One Mississippi, published in July 2006 by Little, Brown & Co. His articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Times of London, San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday Review, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Travel and Leisure, and other national and international publications. Childress wrote the screenplay of the Columbia Pictures film Crazy in Alabama, an official selection of the Venice and San Sebastian film festivals. He lives all over the place, currently in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780316012119
ISBN 10	0316012114
Title	One Mississippi
Author	Mark Childress
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little Brown and Company
Year published	2006-07-03
Number of pages	385
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