James Wilcox

• May-1985
• / General Fiction
• 

Ethyl Mae Coco's rambling Victorian home on North Gladiola -- the Main Street of Tula Springs, Louisiana -- is the only residence left at the business end of town, but it's a hotbed for chaotic comedy. Mrs. Coco, aged fifty-seven and feeling somewhat...

• Jul-1987
• / General Fiction
• 

A candidate for the office of Superintendent of Streets, Parks, and Garbage, middle-aged matron Olive Mackie of Tula Springs, Louisiana, finds her political aspirations thwarted when her ninety-one-year-old Great Uncle L.D. comes under suspicion for ...

• Apr-1989
• / General Fiction
• 

• Jun-1990
• / General Fiction
• 

"

Universally and repeatedly praised ever since it first appeared in 1983, Modern Baptists is the book that launched novelist James Wilcox''s career and debuted the endearingly daft community of Tula Springs, Louisiana. It''s the tale of Bobby Pick...

• May-1991
• / General Fiction
• 

When Emily and Clara, two young women from Tula Springs, Louisiana, arrive in New York City, they carry with them all the youthful expectancy of a bright future filled with passion and accomplishment. As the years pass and Emily and Clara follow diff...

• Mar-1993
• / General Fiction
• 

Since The New Yorker published an in-depth profile of him in 1994, Wilcox has begun to achieve the recognition he deserves. Guest of a Sinner pits the haplessly endearing Eric Thorsen against the indignities of urban l ife and provides readers with a...

• Sep-1998
• / General Fiction
• 

Lloyd Norris is slouching towards middle age. Recently out of the closet, he knows it's time to devote himself to finding the love & companionship that have long eluded him. But his search is complicated & the result is a dizzyingly funny book about ...

• Sep-2003
• / General Fiction
• 

Over the course of twenty years and seven novels James Wilcox has established himself as one of the most distinctive and beloved voices of the South, a comic master whose work has been praised by writers as diverse as Robert Penn Warren and Anne Tyle...

• Apr-2007
• / General Fiction
• 

James Wilcox's novels, with their trademark blend of humor and compassion, have been lauded by critics and readers alike. In Hunk City, Wilcox takes us to southeast Louisiana, where Burma van Buren, thanks to a recent inheritance, is the wealthiest w...