Mark Childress, Author . Little, Brown $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-01211-9
When his father is relocated from Indiana to Minor, Miss., in 1973, 16-year-old Daniel Musgrove finds himself a classic fish out of water. At Minor High, the Midwestern teenager finds a kindred spirit in wiseacre Tim Cousins, whose motto is "Ever
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Mark Childress, Author Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-56871-3
Taking its title from the ``V for Victory'' salute of WW II, Childress's second novel has a nostalgia-inducing wealth of period detail. It is not so successful as a coming-of-age narrative, however, since Childress seems not to have been able to...
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Mark Childress, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (383p) ISBN 978-0-399-13855-3
Family tumult and nationwide social unrest converge to shake the world of 12-year-old orphan Peejoe Bullis in the summer of 1965, ``when everybody went crazy in Alabama.'' This wise, funny novel by the author of Tender opens as Peejoe's relatively...
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Mark Childress, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-375-40021-6
A disappointing allegory from a proven talent about wealth, fame and wisdom, Childress's fifth novel (after Crazy in Alabama) begins with some effective hooks but bogs down in silly subplots. Atop the pop charts in 1972, Ben ""Superman"" Willis...
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Mark Childress, Little, Brown, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-03304-6
Sassy Southern belle Georgia has a lot of secrets: a rotation of gentleman callers with unique sexual needs, a mother with a tenuous hold on reality, and a lucrative (if dodgy) business of selling at a huge mark-up the folk art quilts she buys and...
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