Sterling Watson

• Jul-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1989
• / General Fiction
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For Merelene Durham it's been fifteen years of coping, of determination not to lose her purchase on this world: a world that has become almost unendurable since her rakish husband, Mayfield, fled after encephalitis turned their son Roland's mind into...

• Jan-1989
• / Fantasy
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The Calling is the story of Blackford "Toad" Turlow, an ambitious, impressionable young man who aspires to be a writer. The voice in his head is that of Eldon Odom, a famous - sometimes infamous - novelist to whom Toad apprentices himself. In the beg...

• Jan-1989
• / General Fiction
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Editorial Review - Kirkus Reviews A Southern prison drama with a revenge plot and a sense of thickly textured events that recalls, somewhat crudely, early Robert Penn Warren novels. Rich Clare and her farmboy stud Charles, the high school football st...

• Nov-1994
• / Suspense
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Corey Darrow had come to Eddie Priest for protection. She was being harassed for raising the ecological flag in the rich, dark ooze of Florida's Okee County--land of sugar cane, neo-colonialists, and rattlesnakes as big around as your thigh. Not sens...

• Feb-2004
• / Suspense
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Sent to live in the humidity of rural Florida with his grandparents and his sixteen-year-old Aunt Delia for the summer, twelve-year-old Travis becomes absorbed in the closed ways of small-town life. Captivated by Delia, Travis watches her attempt to ...

• Jul-2011
• / General Fiction
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In 1964, seventeen-year-old Billy Dyer is a newcomer to Oleander, a Gulf Coast Florida town whose old guard define football as the ancient Spartans did their Agoge. It is a mode of brutal tutelage that forges the hearts and minds of the town's elite ...

• Mar-2015
• / Thriller
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Set in Tampa in the late 1980s, Suitcase City captures the glitter of the high life and the steamy essence of low places in the Cigar City. A man gets himself into a little bit of trouble, then a little bit more, then a lot. How does he get himself o...

• Jan-2020
• / Literary
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“Transmutes Lavender Scare investigators’ ruthless assaults on suspected homosexuals in 1950s Gainesville into heart-racing fiction.” -- New York Journal of BooksIn the late 1950s, Gainesville, Florida, seems to be a sleepy university town. It...

• Feb-2023
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A taut thriller set in Florida's desolate panhandle, part coming-of-age story, all hard-boiled noir.“Amid the classic noir elements, author Sterling Watson slow-rolls a moving reflection on the costs to the human heart of vast social and economic c...