George Garrett

• Dec-1986
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There is a special joy in seeing a virtuoso at work, achieving the fulfillment of his art. In a prodigious literary career, demonstrating a virtually limitless range, George Garrett’s dazzling versatility has won high esteem and critical acclaim fo...

• Aug-1990
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Completing his masterful trilogy of novels set in Elizabethan England, Garrett again applies distinguished literary skills to spin a tale dark with deception and metaphysical questions but teeming with sensuous and concrete details that convey the sp...

• Sep-1991
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"I have read Death of the Fox," writes O. B. Hardison, Director of The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C., "and feel that I have probably participated at the inception of a major literary event. The novel is a brilliant and unique work. ...

• Jun-1992
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• Apr-1993
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"Southern Fiction is alive and kicking and going off in all kinds of directions as this old century stagers to an end." To prove their audacious pronouncement, George Garrett and Paul Ruffin have assembled thirty-one stories representing the best of ...

• Apr-1994
• / Literary
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The events in Do, Lord, Remember Me take place in a matter of hours, and during that time the whole of life is split open before us, exposing the sacred and every shade of the profane. At the center of the novel is Big Red Smalley, a traveling evange...

• Apr-1996
• / General Fiction
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Twenty-five years after a bizarre series of deaths in Paradise Springs, Florida, investigative reporter Bill Tone attempts to reconstruct the events of the past, in a story that is told from the perspectives of participants and witnesses....

• Feb-1998
• / General Fiction
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A reporter investigates a crime spree that shakes a small Florida town in the week Martin Luther King is assassinated. “There are few recent novels as thought-provoking, as witty, and as entertaining as this one” (Washington Post Book World). Wit...

• Oct-1998
• / Literary
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Here is a new collection of stories, anecdotes, and personal essays, with a few poems added for good measure, by a writer whose first collection of short fiction was published to high praise some forty years ago. The brief fiction section covers Garr...

• Oct-2000
• / Literary
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Mike Royle, passionless and uncommitted, flees New York's gray winters, the dull routine of his law firm job, and the malaise of his recent divorce to return to his Florida hometown and work for longtime family friend Senator Allen Parker. Parker sho...

• Apr-2006
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     The fifteen stories of George Garrett’s Empty Bed Blues (his eighth book-length collection) are vintage Garrett -- no two alike -- with each moving, one way and another, in new and daring directions. His stories are deeply ...

• Nov-2007
• / Literary
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A shotgun marriage of fact and fiction by one of the most highly regarded writers and teachers of our timeA writer named George Garrett, suffering from double vision as a result of a neurological disorder, is asked to review a recent, first biography...