Helen Norris, Author University Alabama Press $33 (216p) ISBN 978-0-8173-1029-5
A prize-winning fiction writer and current poet laureate of Alabama, Norris (The Christmas Wife) offers up nine stories, many resplendent with traditional Southern styles and themes, but most transcending the boundaries of regionalism, through...
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Helen Norris, Author Louisiana State University Press $21.95 (193p) ISBN 978-0-8071-1790-3
Like a ``burning glass,'' an archaic term for a magnifying glass, the nine stories in this appealing collection amplify and illuminate small moments, a task Norris ( The Christmas Wife ; Walk with the Sickle Moon ) performs with imagination and...
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Helen Norris, Author, Hillel Black, Editor Carol Publishing Corporation $15.95 (170p) ISBN 978-1-55972-001-4
Norris's third novel ( More Than Seven Watchmen ) is a strangely anachronistic story. Widow Laura Kendall comes to the French town of Montreuil to look for the grandchild whom she knows her dead son sired while on Army duty in the area. Fortuitously,
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Helen Norris, Author, Norris, Author University of Illinois Press $14.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-252-01540-3
Akin to the door-to-door salesman in ``Water into Wine''the last story of this wonderfully written collection that lends the book its titlewho distills common tap water, Norris's enchanting narrative voice transmutes ordinary, undramatic events and...
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