Jack Cady, Author . St. Martin's $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-28079-6
The Off Season
and Street,
Cady's last two novels,
were wry fables on life in contemporary America, slyly disguised as dark fantasy fiction. This diffusely plotted novel mines the same vein of magic realism that laced those tales, but it...
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Jack Cady, Author . Night Shade $27 (239p) ISBN 978-1-892389-28-2
For more than 30 years, Cady has been one of America's great chroniclers of characters and places. In novels like The Haunting of Hood Canal
and stories like "The Night They Killed Road Dog," he has relied heavily on a deep knowledge of
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Jack Cady, Author Night Shade Books $14.95 (246p) ISBN 978-1-59780-085-3
The final work from novelist Cady (1933-2004) immerses readers in Southern city life just as it emerges from the suffering and shortfalls of WWII, a chronicle of seven summer weeks in 1948 that irrevocably change a handful of ordinary Louisville,...
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Jack Cady, Author Broken Moon Press $13.95 (149p) ISBN 978-0-913089-40-8
Cady's ( The Burning and Other Stories ) latest collection of stories reveals the influences of magical realism and horror. Cady uncovers the scars on our collective psyche that range from the Great Flood to the war in Vietnam. In the title story,...
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Jack Cady, Author Broken Moon Press $13.95 (258p) ISBN 978-0-913089-50-7
There is little to recommend in Cady's slow yarn about a mountain defiled and the revenge it extracts on its owner. Trouble begins in Winston-Salem, N.C., in the 1950s when a 30-year-old Native American, Harriette Johnson, inherits 700 acres and ``da
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Jack Cady, Author Night Shade Books $15 (239p) ISBN 978-1-892389-48-0
For more than 30 years, Cady has been one of America's great chroniclers of characters and places. In novels like The Haunting of Hood Canal and stories like ""The Night They Killed Road Dog,"" he has relied heavily on a deep knowledge of people
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Jack Cady, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-312-11455-8
World Fantasy Award-winner Cady's (The Sons of Noah and Other Stories) disappointing horror novel about street people battling a serial killer of young women in Seattle is clearly, if loosely, based on that city's real-life Green River killings. The
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Jack Cady, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13574-4
In this satirical and elusive broadside at what he admits is a version of his hometown of Port Townsend, Wash., Cady (Street), who's won both a Nebula and a World Fantasy Award for his dark fantasy yarns, creates a curious pastiche that echoes...
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Jack Cady, Author, Cady, Author St. Martin's Press $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-20274-3
With the lusty, slightly stumbling zest of an aging hipster, novelist Cady gives his own highly opinionated, occasionally off-putting account of the history of American literature--an attempt, the author says, to tell ""things I wish someone had...
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