Ligon, Samuel (132 results)

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Robert Elgin has checked out of his life, rendered himself irrelevant, and become invisible. After stumbling upon a secret slush fund his political bosses have been skimming off the public, Elgin takes the money and runs . Runs from the corruption of machine politics. Runs from the corrupting of his daughter, molested by a twelve-year-old neighbor. Runs from his wife's obsession with grief counselors, rape specialists, being saved by Jesus, and putting the twelve-year-old behind bars. Runs to New York, where he meets Carla, a doctoral student at Columbia, who, enmeshed in her own world of corruption, is also ready to become invisible, ready to run. They hit the road, forgetting themselves, but back home in Michigan, where everything has fallen apart, Elgin's children must wonder what has become of their father. Of course he can't just leave them there. Of course he can't just run away. But he doesn't know how to go back either. And he has to. A kinetic, spellbinding debut, Safe in Heaven Dead reveals a world of people struggling to do what's right when everything seems wrong, a world of people resisting surrender to the corruption that surrounds them, and a world, too, which, in the face of apparent hopelessness, somehow breeds hope.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. "A masterful exhibition in storytelling; a breathless page-turner. Ligon drives his narrative like a formula one racer. Buckle your seat belts and get ready for a thrilling ride."--Jonathan Evison, West of Here "Part meditation on modern love's dark and often unexamined underbelly; part can't-put-it-down-even-for-a-dinner-break-thriller, this novel contains one of the most convincingly and complicatedly terrifying fictional characters I have run into."--Pam Houston, Contents May Have Shifted "A wildly original love story, a ghost story, a tense and suspenseful story in which the wickedly talented Ligon channels voices--of the lost, the longing, and the damned."--Jess Walter, We Live in Water Praise for Safe in Heaven Dead "A superbly convincing first novel.An expertly motivated debut."--Kirkus, starred review "This debut novel instantly seizes and holds the imagination."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "Ligon is firmly in control, laying out the elements of the story like the pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle."--New York Times Book Review Nikki has spent her life running from her abusive mother and the violent boyfriend she killed years ago, and now from his brother, Burke, just released from prison. Burke doesn't know yet how his brother died, but he's obsessed with finding Nikki and claiming her--and her daughter--as his own. Now she's run out of room to run. Samuel Ligon is the author of Safe in Heaven Dead (HarperCollins, 2003) and Drift and Swerve. His stories have appeared in more than twenty literary journals. He teaches at Eastern Washington University's Inland Northwest Center for Writers, and is the editor of Willow Springs.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. "an anthology that?s . eclectic, drunk and delicious." ?The New York TimesIf you love pie, whiskey, and good writing, this collection of funny and heartbreaking stories, poems, and recipes serves up a plethora of pleasure.What happens when good writing is inspired by and served with a slice of pie and a shot of whiskey? Pie & Whiskey is a literary event series started in Spokane, Washington, where the idea was to serve good pie, good whiskey, and good writers reading prose or poetry about pie and whiskey. This collection features the best original work from the series by writers such as Anthony Doerr, Elissa Washuta, Kim Barnes, and more. Proving that good writing is best served with a slice of pie and a shot of whiskey, a smattering of pie recipes and whiskey-centric cocktails are included alongside dozens of surprising, funny, heartbreaking, fantastically written stories and poems by Jess Walter, J Robert Lennon, Kim Barnes, and ML Smoker and more.Full contributor list:Kim Addonizio ? Steve Almond ? Kim Barnes ? Devin Becker ? Judy Blunt ? Anthony Doerr ? Thom Caraway ? Elizabeth J. Colen ? Debra Magpie Earling ? Christopher Howell ? Sherrie Flick ? Jacob H. Fries ? Nina Mukerjee Furstenau ? Margot Kahn ? Meissa Kwasny ? Kate Lebo ? J. Robert Lennon ? Samuel Ligon ? Gary Copeland Lilley ? Robert Lopez ? Tod Marshall ? Virginia Reeves ? Laura Read ? Paisley Rekdal ? Nicole Sheets ? M. L. Smoker ? Alexandra Teague ? Rachel Toor ? Robert Wrigley ? Ed Skoog ? Jess Walter ? Shawn Vestal ? Elissa Washuta ? Joe Wilkins ? Nance Van Winckel ? Kristen Millares Young ? Maya Jewell Zeller.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. "an anthology that?s . eclectic, drunk and delicious." ?The New York TimesIf you love pie, whiskey, and good writing, this collection of funny and heartbreaking stories, poems, and recipes serves up a plethora of pleasure.What happens when good writing is inspired by and served with a slice of pie and a shot of whiskey? Pie & Whiskey is a literary event series started in Spokane, Washington, where the idea was to serve good pie, good whiskey, and good writers reading prose or poetry about pie and whiskey. This collection features the best original work from the series by writers such as Anthony Doerr, Elissa Washuta, Kim Barnes, and more. Proving that good writing is best served with a slice of pie and a shot of whiskey, a smattering of pie recipes and whiskey-centric cocktails are included alongside dozens of surprising, funny, heartbreaking, fantastically written stories and poems by Jess Walter, J Robert Lennon, Kim Barnes, and ML Smoker and more.Full contributor list:Kim Addonizio ? Steve Almond ? Kim Barnes ? Devin Becker ? Judy Blunt ? Anthony Doerr ? Thom Caraway ? Elizabeth J. Colen ? Debra Magpie Earling ? Christopher Howell ? Sherrie Flick ? Jacob H. Fries ? Nina Mukerjee Furstenau ? Margot Kahn ? Meissa Kwasny ? Kate Lebo ? J. Robert Lennon ? Samuel Ligon ? Gary Copeland Lilley ? Robert Lopez ? Tod Marshall ? Virginia Reeves ? Laura Read ? Paisley Rekdal ? Nicole Sheets ? M. L. Smoker ? Alexandra Teague ? Rachel Toor ? Robert Wrigley ? Ed Skoog ? Jess Walter ? Shawn Vestal ? Elissa Washuta ? Joe Wilkins ? Nance Van Winckel ? Kristen Millares Young ? Maya Jewell Zeller.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Ligon's second story collection is a tightly crafted series about a girl wandering the United States, seeking not to find but to escape herself.

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