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|  | | Completeness of the Soul: The Life and Opinions of Jay Breeze, Rock Star
Tells, in pastiche style, the life story of rock star Jay Breeze, a '70's rock star who tried to find himself as an artist after years of success and acclaim as a rock musician.
Like other rock stars before him, Jay Breeze has been relegated to "the dustbin of history." Consigned there even before his car hit a tree, Jay's reality was fan-dictated: the embodiment of a past that "the future thought it was." His literary executor, Charlie Beagle, journalism professor, Rolling Stone contributing editor, and former bandmate, retrieves the scraps—what seems the detritus of his friend's life—and composes the ballad of Jay Breeze, Rock Star. Bridging audience and artist, persona and man, musician and muse, reader and unflinchingly rendered character, Beagle arranges Jay’s wo | |  | | Morte D'Eden
"In a deft series of interconnected stories, Morte d'Eden weaves a bittersweet chronicle of small-town Southern life three decades ago. Against a background of sexual exploration, racial division, and conflict between the young and the old, narrator Charlie Beagle and his buddies search for love and meaning on their way from high school toward college. A convincing record of one generation."
Michael Lund, author of Growing Up on Route 66
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satire of Southern manners set in 1970's North Carolina and Virginia
Daniel Randolph Deal is a Southern aristocrat, having the required bloodline, but little of the nobility. A man resistant to the folly of ethics, he prefers a selective, self-indulgent morality. He is a confessed hedonist, albeit responsibly so.
Attending first year law school at Wake Forest, Dan encounters Evelyn Daiches and a relationship ensues-a relationship that exceeds his original intentions. He finds her family provincial and using this as justification, with additional prodding from his cousin Ramona, spurns her. Dan immediately takes up with a chestnut-haired beauty, Audr |
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Soldier's Gap
by David Schwinghammer
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 Soldier's Gap is a non-traditional mystery with literary elements. The high school principal is brutally murdered, but Deputy Sheriff Dave Jenkins's search for meaning and love is a much more significant theme.
"Murder isn't usually this fun |
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