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ALA Notable Book; 1994 Mississippi Writers Award for Fiction; 1994 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In WOLF WHISTLE, Lewis Nordan unleashes the hellhounds of his prodigious imagination on one of the most notorious racial killings of the century, the Emmett Till murder. Soon we're on a magical mystery tour of the Southern psyche of the mid-1950s and the dawning of guilt and recognition in a whole generation of white Southerners. "An immense and wall-shattering display of talent. WOLF WHISTLE will help usher Lewis Nordan into the Hall of Fame of American Letters."--Randall Kenan, The Nation. **

leroy Dearman Is Twelve, And He Lives On A Llama Farm In Mississippi. Life Is Perfect. It's True That His Grandfather Just Died In The Attic And That Wild Dogs Kill A Baby Llama Now And Then, And It's True That One Little Sister Curses Him And The Other One Wets Her Pants. But Up To The Day Uncle Harris Moves In, Life Looks Like It's Right Out Of A Walt Disney Movie. No Wonder The Llamas Greet Each Morning With A Song. Uncle Harris Arrives In A Sports Car, Full Of Funny Stories And New Ideas. He Manages To Persuade Leroy's Straitlaced Parents To Join Him For Cocktails In The Evening. He Sets Up A Pretty Grand Bachelor Pad In The Dearman Attic, With A Telephone, A Tv Set, And A Stack Of Playboy Magazines. He Is, You Might Say, Romance Itself. Once Uncle Harris Moves In, Life On The Llama Farm Takes On An Entirely Different Flavor. Leroy Discovers Those Magazines. Electricity Fills The Dearman House. Equilibrium Tilts, Conversation Trails Off, The Atmospheric Pressure Twists--and Lightning Strikes. Leroy Starts Seeing Things He's Never Seen Before, Like The Very Gifted Baton-twirling Teacher, And His World Changes Forever. Not Since Portnoy's Complaint Has A Novel Looked So Directly, Hilariously, And Bittersweetly At The Heartbreak Of Puberty.

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Leroy Dearman, age twelve, lives on a llama farm, and life is pretty much perfect. It's true that his grandfather just died in the attic and wild dogs stalk the baby llamas. It's true that one little sister curses him and the other one wets her pants. Mostly, though, life is right out of Looney Tunes. No wonder the llamas greet each sunrise with a song. Enter Uncle Harris, roaring up in his new red sports car. He's separated, dressed to kill, full of jokes and new ideas. Romance itself. Harris sets himself up in the Dearman attic with a telephone, a TV, a tasseled lamp, and a stack of Playboys. The day Leroy avails himself of the centerfolds, life on the llama farm changes forever. It's like Leroy's been struck by lightning. Or love. He sees things he never noticed before - his daddy's embarrassing withered right arm, the way his mother blushes around Uncle Harris. (Leroy thinks he knows why Uncle Harris and his mother want him to go to baton twirling lessons with his sisters; he thinks he knows why they want the house to themselves.). That summer, the Dearman farmhouse fills right up with electricity. The atmospheric pressure of family life shifts and lightning indeed strikes. But the lightning also sings. ALA Notable Book; Mississippi Arts and Letters Fiction Award. Lewis Nordan's remarkable third novel, THE SHARPSHOOTER BLUES, is in part a meditation on America's love affair with blue-steel barrels and soft-tip bullets, and in part a look at the violence and loss that ensue when the guns come out to play one day in a small town. Just as his award-winning WOF WHISTLE illuminated the complexity of racism, Nordan's new novel shines the brilliant flash of gunfire on love--between fathers and sons, between husbands and wives, between gay lovers, and between friends. At its heart is Hydro Raney, a boy who's never grown up, a boy who wouldn't hurt a soul. In THE SHARPSHOOTER BLUES, Nordan once again makes us laugh; then our helpless laughter turns first into weeping and then into wonder.'A comedy at least half as divine--and dark--as Dante's own... a flat-out tour de force.'--Lee K. Abbott, Miami Herald;'This is not just a good book, this is a marvelous book.'-The Village Voice. A novel on an oddball Southern family living on a llama farm. The hero is Leroy Dearman, 12, whose life changes with the arrival of an uncle, a city slicker who reads porno magazines and seduces Leroy's mother. That gives Leroy ideas regarding a comely majorette. By the author of Sharpshooter Blues The island where Mr. Raney had his fishcamp was a strip of high ground far out in a strange bayou, the vast, unbounded backwaters of many lakes and rivers; from underground, somewhere, salt water, brackish at least, mineral salts, filled up the swamp and broadened it far across the Delta. Two youths walk into a store in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, and are shot. Murder, self-defense or accident? Marshall Chisolm's probe turns into an examination of the violence and loss which result when guns come out to play in a small town. By the author of Wolf Whistle This heartbreaking novel from award-winning Mississippi writer Lewis Nordan is a meditation upon guns and love, all kinds of love -between fathers and sons, husbands and wives, gay lovers, friends.