Jill McCorkle, Author . Algonquin $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-56512-256-7
The title creatures of McCorkle's third short story collection and eighth book are humans with animal qualities and animals with human qualities. In lesser hands, such a setup could be formulaic, but McCorkle has a poet's skill and the...
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Jill McCorkle, Author . Algonquin $22.95 (258p) ISBN 978-1-56512-632-9
A lack of narrative distance and interchangeable protagonists sink McCorkle's latest short story collection. The constant barbs aimed at the siblings and the cold-hearted, overmedicated mothers of the parade of ubiquitously decent and forlorn...
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Jill McCorkle, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $18.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-56512-204-8
Whether she's telling the story of a woman who throws funerals for people before they're dead or of a music-store employee who can't reconcile himself to the fact that records are extinct, McCorkle (Carolina Moon) manages to make the reader feel...
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Jill McCorkle, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-449-21996-6
Kate Burns, who goes through adolescence painfully aware of the port-wine birthmark on her face, envies her best friend's flamboyant mother and her beautiful, racy cousin Angela without recognizing their vulnerabilities. ``McCorkle controls her...
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Jill McCorkle, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $18.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56512-136-2
The sad, gritty truths about life have always poked through the graceful prose and smart, funny dialogue of McCorkle's novels and stories (Ferris Beach, Crash Diet, etc.), and here again she illuminates the ways that infidelity, illness, sexual...
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Jill McCorkle, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $15.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-912697-65-9
Letting go is the theme of McCorkle's funny, wise and accomplished third novel, following The Cheer Leader and July 7th. Virginia Suzanne Ballard is 28 years old, eight months pregnant and not at all sure she wants to leave her family and move ""Nort
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Jill McCorkle, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $18.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-945575-39-9
Set, like her previous novels, in a small Southern town, this coming-of-age story demonstrates McCorkle's ( Tending to Virginia ) deepening maturity as a writer and a new subtlety of prose and theme. Nine-year-old Kate Burns is acutely aware of the...
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Jill McCorkle. Algonquin/Shannon Ravenel, $24.95 (340p) ISBN 978-1-56512-255-0
At the edge of death, one key memory will take hold: a meal in a beautiful restaurant, a humiliating sexual rejection, or a sky full of fireworks and stars. In McCorkle’s sixth novel (after Going Away Shoes), she returns to her native North Carolina
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Jill McCorkle, Author, Shannon Ravenel, Editor Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $16.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-945575-75-7
In this peppery, potent collection by McCorkle ( Ferris Beach ), 11 memorable women, ranging from high school student to retiree, confide details of troubled relationships. Without fail, their voices, hopes and sorrows hit the mark; it's easy to...
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Jill McCorkle. Algonquin, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61620-972-8
The engrossing latest from McCorkle (Life After Life) meditates on the physical and emotional imprints that make up a life. Octogenarian couple Frank and Lil retire to Southern Pines, N. C., from the Boston area to be closer to their adult daughter,
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Jill McCorkle. Algonquin, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-1-61620-973-5
In this satisfying collection from McCorkle (Hieroglyphics), characters attempt to bridge gender, political, and generational divides in hopes of coming to terms with a world where “evil and violent things had been happening since the beginning of...
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