Steve Yarbrough

• Sep-1990
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• Oct-1994
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For many characters in this collection of stories, set in the Mississippi Delta, the past is more immediate than the present. The author sets out on a detailed exploration of the trials and desires of the small farming community of Indianola....

• Oct-1998
• / General Fiction
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Acclaimed short story writer Steve Yarbrough, whose works have been included in the Pushcart Prize anthology and "The Best American Mystery Stories 1998, " once again demonstrates his gift for vividly rendered characters and evocative themes in hi...

• Nov-2000
• / General Fiction
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In this powerful and gritty first novel, Steve Yarbrough takes us into the deep-South world of Ned Rose, who works nights checking the oxygen levels in fish-farm ponds and does all the dirty work his wealthy boss requires. He silently shares the fami...

• May-2001
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In 1902, in a small community deep in the Mississippi Delta, nearly a generation after the end of slavery, events obscured by time but impossible to forgive or forget echo in the lives of blacks and whites alike. As bound together by history as they ...

• Jan-2004
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It is 1943, and the war has come home to Loring, Mississippi. As German POWs labor in the cotton fields, the local draft board sends boys into uniform, and families receive flags and condolences. But for Dan Timms, just shy of 18, the war is his tick...

• Jun-2006
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Loring is the sort of town children dream of leaving and most adults return to only in the absence of better options. But after twenty-five years Pete Barrington--having escaped to California on a football scholarship and then established himself as ...

• Feb-2010
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Luke May teaches local history--his lifelong obsession--at his old high school in Loring, Mississippi. Having been mentored by his hometown newspaper's publisher, a survivor of the civil rights turmoil, he now passes these stories along to students f...

• Aug-2013
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In a captivating departure from the Deep South setting of his previous fiction, Steve Yarbrough now gives us a richly nuanced portrait of a marriage being reinvented in a small town in the Northeast, in his most surprising and compelling novel yet. ...

• Aug-2016
• / General Fiction
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In this collection of stories award-winning writer Steve Yarbrough effortlessly evokes the special qualities of small-town southern life as he examines―with subtle humor, keen insight, and unfailing sympathy―the relationships between ordinary men...

• Jan-2018
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Set against a backdrop of the current political and cultural upheaval in the US and Eastern Europe, The Unmade World is a thoughtful, scope-y literary novel with a dose of suspense that moves from Poland to California to the Hudson Valley and back to...

• Apr-2022
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After a childhood in Mississippi marred by a horrific family scandal, teenage sisters Ella and Caroline Cole escape their hometown, losing all connection to each other. While Ella finds stable domesticity in Boston, Caroline travels th...