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Sanctified and Chicken-Fried : The Portable Lansdale / Joe R Lansdale.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State UniversityPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292793620
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Joe R. Lansdale -- Mister Weed-Eater -- Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back -- The Big Blow -- The Magic Wagon -- Dirt Devils -- The Pit -- Night They Missed the Horror Show -- Bubba Ho-Tep -- The Fat Man and the Elephant -- A Fine Dark Line -- White Mule, Spotted Pig
Summary: Master of mojo storytelling, spinner of over-the-top yarns of horror, suspense, humor, mystery, science fiction, and even the Old West, Joe R. Lansdale has attracted a wide and enthusiastic following. His genre-defying work has brought him numerous awards, including the Grand Master of Horror from the World Horror Convention, the Edgar Award, the American Horror Award, seven Bram Stoker awards, the British Fantasy Award, Italy's Grinzane Prize for Literature, as well as Notable Book of the Year recognition twice from the New York Times. Sanctified and Chicken-Fried is the first "true best of Lansdale" anthology. It brings together a unique mix of well-known short stories and excerpts from his acclaimed novels, along with new and previously unpublished material. In this collection of gothic tales that explore the dark and sometimes darkly humorous side of life and death, you'll meet traveling preachers with sinister agendas, towns lost to time, teenagers out for a good time who get more than they bargain for, and gangsters and strange goings-on at the end of the world. Out of the blender of Lansdale's imagination spew tall tales about men and mules, hogs and races, that are, in his words, "the equivalent of Aesop meets Flannery O'Connor on a date with William Faulkner, the events recorded by James M. Cain." Whether you're a long-time fan of Joe R. Lansdale or just discovering his work, this anthology brings you the best of a writer whom the New York Times Book Review has praised for having "a folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace."
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Joe R. Lansdale -- Mister Weed-Eater -- Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back -- The Big Blow -- The Magic Wagon -- Dirt Devils -- The Pit -- Night They Missed the Horror Show -- Bubba Ho-Tep -- The Fat Man and the Elephant -- A Fine Dark Line -- White Mule, Spotted Pig

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Master of mojo storytelling, spinner of over-the-top yarns of horror, suspense, humor, mystery, science fiction, and even the Old West, Joe R. Lansdale has attracted a wide and enthusiastic following. His genre-defying work has brought him numerous awards, including the Grand Master of Horror from the World Horror Convention, the Edgar Award, the American Horror Award, seven Bram Stoker awards, the British Fantasy Award, Italy's Grinzane Prize for Literature, as well as Notable Book of the Year recognition twice from the New York Times. Sanctified and Chicken-Fried is the first "true best of Lansdale" anthology. It brings together a unique mix of well-known short stories and excerpts from his acclaimed novels, along with new and previously unpublished material. In this collection of gothic tales that explore the dark and sometimes darkly humorous side of life and death, you'll meet traveling preachers with sinister agendas, towns lost to time, teenagers out for a good time who get more than they bargain for, and gangsters and strange goings-on at the end of the world. Out of the blender of Lansdale's imagination spew tall tales about men and mules, hogs and races, that are, in his words, "the equivalent of Aesop meets Flannery O'Connor on a date with William Faulkner, the events recorded by James M. Cain." Whether you're a long-time fan of Joe R. Lansdale or just discovering his work, this anthology brings you the best of a writer whom the New York Times Book Review has praised for having "a folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace."

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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