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Bret Lott

Author of Jewel

27+ Works 2,989 Members 42 Reviews 1 Favorited

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Bret Lott is editor of The Southern Review and professor of English at Louisiana State University.

Includes the names: Bret Lot, Bret Lott, Brett Lott

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Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories (1992) — Contributor — 394 copies
20 Under 30 (1986) — Contributor — 90 copies
Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (2004) — Contributor — 52 copies
Flannery O'Connor: A Celebration of Genius (2000) — Contributor — 39 copies
Ghost Writing: Haunted Tales by Contemporary Writers (2000) — Contributor — 32 copies
A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (2000) — Contributor — 13 copies

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WBCLIB | 3 other reviews | Feb 19, 2023 |
 
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WBCLIB | 1 other review | Feb 19, 2023 |
Just when you think your own life is hard and unfair, you read a book like this and realize you have it pretty damn good and had better shut up and stop whining.

Every sentence is a work of art and if I jotted down my favorite quotes I'd be re-writing the whole book. It's just that good.

Definitely goes on my Favorites shelf.

Now I need to find the movie starring Farrah Fawcett.
 
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Jinjer | 15 other reviews | Jul 19, 2021 |
A very good book, I'm glad I read it. I may read it again, now that I know how everything turns out.
It is about a family struggling to survive in wartime and post WWII deep South (Mississippi) They are working hard and managing by selling pine stumps to the turpentine plant for the military, until the war ended, and their sixth child was born. A daughter with Downs Syndrome, in the days when such children were called Mongoloid, and when African Americans were called the "n" word, with no malice intended, just cultural and systemic racism.
It is a family saga, continuing through the years until Jewel, the mother, is an old woman and her children grown, except the youngest, who never grew up even though she was middle aged, physically.
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