James Hoggard

• Oct-1997
• / General Fiction
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Even a place as big as Texas is ultimately made up of small things: a rugged mesquite shrub, a fruitless mulberry tree, a decaying neighborhood park with a polluted creek. When you place a rabbit in the shade of that mesquite, or a ring of Stars-of-B...

• May-2002
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-2011
• / Historical
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Here we have the history of a heart, set in the heart of Texas. According to novelist John Nichols, "James Hoggard knows as much as anyone on earth about the small tender mercies and brutalities of people. He describes the human heart with a poignant...

• May-2015
• / General Fiction
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Set in north Texas, and the Southwest in general, this coming-of-age novel pits a protagonist with a traditional, rural background, against the "sophistication" of Dallas in the late 1960s. The title character, Trotter, falls for a woman abou...