Hello Down There Michael Parker

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Hello Down There by Michael Parker

Haunted by a secret tragedy, Edwin, son of the richest family in a small Southern town, fights to overcome his addiction to morphine and face the truth that his parents have worked to obscure.

This timeless debut novel of master Southern storyteller Michael Parker takes readers to a small Southern town in the 1950s where Edwin Keane suffers from the lasting effects of a horrible accidenta broken back, a morphine addiction, and a town of enabling eccentrics. Redemption comes in the form of a young womanthe daughter of a poor farmerand a couple of the towns most interesting outcasts. Parker is an amazing writer. His narrative style is both lyrical and economical, making this novel a true Southern gothic classic.

Hello Down There Reviews

This is Southern gothic intrigue and eccentricity at its best, with language playing an integral part in the action. In Parker's intensely imaginative world, metaphor can be addictive, stories have the power to free stultified lives and telling the truth can redeem the sins of the past. Rich and compassionate, his is a memorable story.Publishers Weekly

Parker joins the ranks of outstanding Southern novelists with this well-written first novel, set in the early 1950s in fictional Trent, North Carolina, a small town with its old-moneyed families, sycophantic merchants, and dirt-poor working people. Parker's unusual but never gimmicky narrative style is well suited to a set of characters and a series of events worthy of Flannery O'Connor. A welcome debut; recommended for all fiction collections.Library Journal

About Michael Parker

Michael Parker is the author of seven novels and three collections of stories. He has received four career-achievement awards: the Hobson Award for Arts and Letters, the North Carolina Award for Literature, the R. Hunt Parker Award, and the 2020 Thomas Wolfe Prize. The three-time winner of the O. Henry Prize, Parker has published short fiction and nonfiction in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Oxford American, Runners World, Men's Journal, and others. He taught for twenty-seven years in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and since 2009 he has been on the faculty of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

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NGR9781958888223

ISBN 13

9781958888223

ISBN 10

1958888222

Title

Hello Down There by Michael Parker

Author

Michael Parker

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

John F Blair Publisher

Year published

2024-10-10

Number of pages

273

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