{"title":"Frank Manley","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"among-prisoners","title":"Among Prisoners","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #9a6372;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStories by Frank Manley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eFebruary 1, 2000 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 224 pages • 978-1-56689-089-2\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eIn the tradition of Flannery O’Connor, Manley presents a cultural snapshot that is poignant, grotesque, ironic, fascinating.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this searing new collection of stories by the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Cockfighter,\u003c\/em\u003e Frank Manley continues his deft exploration of the underside of the American experience. Manley presents a cultural snapshot that is poignant, ironic, and ultimately riveting, as he examines the bleak landscape of racial prejudice and fear that isolates people from one another and lies at the heart of their own loneliness. In “Mister Butterfly” an aging prison guard, imprisoned by blind rage and disappointment, marries Asian mail-order brides and, after disposing of them, complains of being lonely and lost. In “The Housekeeper” a fifty-year-old widow falls in love for the first time with the priest who employs her. In “The Indian Way” a white man criticizes Native Americans for having lost what he calls “the Way,” meaning their traditional culture, only to realize at the end that he has lost the Way himself. Manley’s stories are set in the South as he explores an aspect of the American psyche that spans geographic and economic divisions. Manley’s contemporary characters are prisoners of their own view of the world and their own beliefs and prejudices about those who are different from them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrank Manley is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Renaissance Literature and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His book \u003cem\u003eResultances\u003c\/em\u003e won the Devins Award for Poetry, and his play “Two Masters” starred Kathy Bates and co-won the Great American New Play Contest at the Humana Festival. He is the author of a previous collection of stories called \u003cem\u003eWithin the Ribbons.\u003c\/em\u003e His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Best of a Decade: New Stories from the South.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e“One of the best storytellers now writing.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Kirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAmong Prisoners\u003c\/em\u003e is an exquisitely crafted book of stories. By turns funny, sad, and poignant, these stories cannot fail to touch the readers’ heart. He ranks among the best of our contemporary storytellers.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Tim O’Brien\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These characters are imprisoned in their visions shaped by history and the darkness from within. Nobody among contemporary fiction writers can write dialogue better than Frank Manley: these voices are inward, penetrating, moving, vehement, farcical, entirely human. This is a unique collection.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Ha Jin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Manley’s Southern-influenced tales have a rough-around-the-edges appeal as portraits of everyday folk imprisoned by their own ignorance and greed.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CHPbeta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43707406606,"sku":"","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1475\/9808\/products\/Among-the-Prisoners.jpg?v=1499210549"},{"product_id":"the-cockfighter","title":"The Cockfighter","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #9a6372;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA novel by Frank Manley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eApril 1, 1998 • 5 x 8 • 224 pages • 978-1-56689-073-1\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this stunning debut novel, Manley explores part of the rural American experience where the human spirit, young as it may be, prevails against seemingly overwhelming odds. \u003cem\u003eThe Cockfighter\u003c\/em\u003e presents the dark side of \u003cem\u003eThe Yearling.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e“This challenging and disturbing novel is the most important enactment of the stages of a young man’s growing up that I have read since \u003cem\u003eCatcher in the Rye\u003c\/em\u003e.” \u003cstrong\u003e—A.R. 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