Books by James Alan McPherson and Complete Book Reviews

James Alan McPherson, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-83465-8
In this beautifully written, elliptical memoir, McPherson, whose short story collection Elbow Room won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978, exorcises but never adequately explains the writer's block that earlier hobbled him, though there are mentions of acute...
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James Alan McPherson, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-83464-1
In this unified collection of cultural and personal essays, Pulitzer Prize- winning fiction writer (Elbow Room) and essayist McPherson probes how physical, emotional and moral distance challenge society and its individuals. In essays such as ""Disney
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