Bøger af Hunter James

Siege of Deacon Hollow is a romantic and fateful tale set on the original Wake Forest campus near Raleigh--that is before Big Tobacco (RJR) moved the school to Winston-Salem and transformed it into a university. Unfortunately RJR couldn't move the magnolias as well. That dense forest of trees had been a trademark of the school almost from the day of its founding in 1834.

This is a tale isolating the cultural breakdown of American society. I have chosen the sonnet critique as a way of getting the story told. This is an unusual if not unique process, and it is with great hope that I look to its success or failure.

Troubling thoughts at sunset of a summer's day, with a background of dubious romance, brought on by old-fashioned fire and brimstone preaching'

Thjs is the last of five works growing out of the evils of old-fashioned hellfire and brimstone preaching.

Too Soon the Dawn is a dark romance between two partly related teenagers and seeks to describe how old-fashioned fire-and-brimstone preaching, still common in remote corners of the South, can drive parishioners to commit greater evils than they have previously thought of. The story takes place soon after World War II, at a time when such preaching was common almost everywhere in the region.

A tale of a 16-year-old youth frightened by of harrowing obsessions of old-fashioned Southern revivalism and yet relentlessly seeks to seduce his half-sister during one of her summer visits to and upcountry plantation.

THE LONG SLOW ROAD TO PERDITION The Harps of Hell is a tale of old fashioned Southern revivalism as our grandparents knew it. Dark flames of Hell shooting up about you even during the midst of a pleasant summer afternoon. Sleepless nights, days of terror. After long evenings in a sweaty church, most often at harvest time, many parishioners either go home "saved" or else plagued by guilt and thoughts of suicide as they seek to escape the distress brought on by angry interludes of violent singing and tortured sermonizing-all this as two closely related teenagers, boy and girl, separated since birth, harbor thoughts of an illicit romance even as they seek to come to terms with their own desperate feelings of uncertainty.

The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork recounts newspaperman Hunter James's attempts to save his 100-year-old family farm and homestead from extinction. Interweaving current affairs and family history, James details the growth of the Winston-Salem area as a center of Moravian piety and later as the world's largest tobacco manufacturing center.