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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    July 2001
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • This collection brings together the author's twelve best stories, all set in the same small Southern community in Alabama. The world of these stories covers five generations of one particular family named Anderson, and the range in time is from 1865 ...



  • Author Dabney Stuart best summarizes this debut novel ''as relentless as Euripides, or Faulkner, whose 'As I Lay Dying' is its formal model. Its central preoccupation is the sins (or in more secular terms, 'behavior patterns') of fathers and mothers ...



  • This is a superb collection of stories about the fascinating complexities of life in a small community. Marlin Barton is a masterful observer of family relations and the idosyncratic logic that governs human lives. His writing does not call attention...





  • These stories, all set in nearby towns in the Alabama Black Belt―a swath of dark soil that runs west to east through the central part of the state―explore the history, culture, and human spirit of the people who live there, and those that came be...



  • In 2000, as Seth Anderson researches his family history, he discovers an unexpected story and "contained within it lies a larger story that might speak not just to Southern history but beyond it." In the late 1800s in rural Alabama, Melinda Anderson ...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Marlin Barton has published 6 books.

Marlin Barton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Children of Dust, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Marlin Barton, Dry Well, was published in July 2001.

No. Marlin Barton does not write books in series.