The Mark Childress page
Crazy in Alabama - The Mark Childress Page
Hey, y'all! If you've ever felt a little bit crazy ... in Alabama, or wherever you're from ... welcome home.
Coming Feb 23, 2011 from Little, Brown and Company ... The
people interested in my work are a ragtag bunch of hardy misfits,
devoted to Tupperware and Red Dot No. 9. We've been to Willie's Island
and the original Pigeon Creek, to Memphis with Leroy Kirby and his
invisible twin, all the way to the Golden Gate with Lucille and her
Maison Blanche hatbox. We've even been to Minor High with Daniel. I
don't know where else we're going before we're through, but so far it's
been one hell of a ride. CLICK HERE to check out all my books... or HERE to see something I'm excited about -- the new edition of my first novel, back in print after years when it was unavailable.
Read the book that started it all! Click here to check out the new edition of A World Made of Fire. Or, if you are into the Amazon Kindle, you can buy the book for the rock-bottom remainder price of $2.99 ! That is a HECK of a lot of words for the money. One reviewer likened A World Made of Fire to "Flannery O'Connor mixed with Cormac McCarthy, as told by a Southern-fried Stephen King." The book is lyrical, non-comic on its surface, poetic in its language (it's prose, but in iambic pentameter), and pretty dark. Features the first appearance of Jacko, who is also a character in One Mississippi. I published this novel when I was 26. Very different from Crazy in Alabama or One Mississippi, but I like it. Of course, I'm biased....
Dig the tres cool jacket of the new French edition of Crazy in Alabama. 
