Charles Davis, Author . Mira $21.95 (329p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2304-4
At the start of Davis's beautifully written debut, 11-year-old Charlie York leads an idyllic life in the shadow of Angel's Rest, a mountain in the Virginia Alleghenies "so high the earth's caretakers took breaks on the peaks before...
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Charles Davis, Author . Mira $13.95 (393p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2542-0
A teen imprisoned in 1959 for crimes he didn't commit finds bittersweet justice more than 20 years later in Davis's second Southern gothic (after Angel's Rest
). Benjamin Purdue grew up the son of a prostitute in Shady Hollow, a...
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Charles Davis, Permanent, $26 (159p) ISBN 978-1-57962-213-8
Davis's sincere latest (after Walking the Dog) is a tale of violence and literary redemption set in Africa. The narrator, a local nicknamed the Barefoot Librarian, is a shaman-type figure who rescues Kate, a white scholar passing through and intent...
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Charles Davis, Author . Permanent $26 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57962-153-7
Written in the form of a confession by an elderly man looking back on the defining incident of his youth, Davis's brief debut takes place in a remote Spanish village during the Inquisition, after the Christians have conquered Moorish Spain. As...
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Charles Davis, Author . Permanent $26 (164p) ISBN 978-1-57962-167-4
Davis's strained second novel takes place on the fictional island of Santa Margarita y Los Monjes, a magical place where anything is possible. The narrative consists of loosely knit episodes detailing the adventures of some of the island's
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Charles Davis. Permanent, $28 (232p) ISBN 978-1-57962-432-3
Davis’s fourth novel is a hilarious scatological satire starring an Irish art historian living in 1938 Rome, which reduces the 20th century’s two most notorious dictators, Hitler and Mussolini, to their most base selves, known as the Flatulent...
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