Bibliographical Description
89.02.W058: Nordan – The All-Girl Football Team
THE | ALL-GIRL | FOOTBALL | TEAM | Stories by | Lewis Nordan | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS | A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE | NEW YORK
72 leaves, pp. [14] 1-15 16-28 29-47 48-58 59-73 74-83 84-97 98-112 113-125 [5]
Edition statement: First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, February 1989
Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b “ALSO BY LEWIS NORDAN”, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title, π3b imprint, π4a dedication, π4b blank, π5a epigraph, π5b blank, π6a table of contents, π6b blank, π7a fly-title, π7b blank, 1-125 The All-Girl Football Team: 1-15 Sugar Among the Chickens, 16-28 The Talker at the Freak-Show, 29-47 Sugar, the Eunuchs, and Big G. B., 48-58 The Sears and Roebuck Catalog Game, 59-73 The Farmers’ Daughter, 74-83 Wild Dog, 84-97 John Thomas Bird, 98-112 The Attendant, 113-125 The All-Girl Football Team; χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank, χ3a Vintage Contemporaries list, χ3b Vintage Contemporaries list, continued, with order form.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Chris Moore; interior author photo by Ed Sumrok.
Copyright: © 1976, 1977, 1982, 1985, 1986. ISBN: 0-394-75701-7. Price: $5.95. The All-Girl Football Team was first published by Louisiana State University Press 1986.
Copies: JDP 1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover) A stunning collection of stories. Mr. Nordan’s distinctive gift is for blending the grotesque and the ordinary. – The New York Times Book Review
- Love and humor triumph in these often expert fictions. – Kirkus Reviews
- Welcome to Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, a Delta town whose air is filled with “innocence and ripe apples.” But to Sugar Mecklin, a young boy who is the central character in many of these marvelous stories, it is also a place “where freaks grow like magic from the buckshot and gumbo, where eunuchs roam the Delta flatscape looking for Episcopalians.” Sugar’s mother spends her days creating imaginary lives for models in her Sears and Roebuck catalog. Daddy keeps a black suit with the words “Rock ‘n’ Roll Music” spelled out in sequins on the back hidden in his closet. Sugar searches for a way to grow up with dignity, and finds resources he never knew he had. While fishing for chickens in the yard, he lands a rooster on his head instead: “My parents were proud of me. They believed that a man who has worn a chicken on his head would never be a fool to geography or marriage or alcohol.”
- Lewis Nordan’s magical, often sidesplittingly funny tales are triumphs of Southern storytelling.