Sign-In
Cart
Alabama Stories
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780974379005
Publisher: John I. Jones
Published: Feb 1 2006
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Alabama Stories is the life of William Billy Johnson, a native Alabamian, told in a series of short stories over the course of 50 years.
In Prejudice, Billy meets a negro for the first time as a five-year-old and wonders why his father treats the man so differently from white men.
In Boone, Billy is an eight-year-old. He befriends an aging farmer in the backwoods of north Alabama, a man who has a psychotic love for his invalid wife.
In A Virtuous Woman, Billy is a witness to a vicious family feud between his mother, his aunt and his grandmother.
In Annie, Billy, at age eleven, and his cousin Roy love to spy on the tenants of their grandmother's rental houses. When Annie Atkinson comes along, they bite off more than they can chew.
In A Gil McDougald, Billy, at age 12, has the adventure of a lifetime while collecting baseball cards on the 1954 New York Yankees.
In Franklin's, Billy learns about bootlegging and politics in a small southern town.
Johnny Daytona tells a thirty-year saga about Billy and his hero-worship of one of the greatest pool players that ever lived.
Virgil is a born preacher and Billy's childhood friend; the only thing Virgil loved more than the Lord was black girls.
Charley tells how sometimes angels appear in the most unexpected of places.
Lenny is a lonely Jewish man who can't get over being jilted by his girlfriend.
In One Stupid Mistake, Bobby Worthington has the world on a string until one night when he does something stupid.
In Elaine, Billy meets his dream woman, falls in love and gets married.
In Reunion, old nightmares and new truths emerge at Billy's high school reunion.
In Trapping Rabbits Billy wonders why his father delayed the spring plowing to teach him how to trap a rabbit.
Grandfathers, the final story, is in two parts. The first part shows Billy with his own grandfather in 1945. The second part, fifty years later in 1995, shows Billy as a grandfather with his own grandson.
This unmissable collection delivers poignant insights into Billy's life. A compelling slice of Alabama life.
1 different editions
Also available
Also in
Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 1 (Loa #26): The Pioneers / The Last of the Mohicans / The Prairie
Cooper, James Fenimore
Hardcover
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid, the Cold Six Thousand; Introduction by Thomas Mallon
Ellroy, James
Hardcover
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback