Books written by T. R. Pearson

Year of Our Lord: Faith, Hope, and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta

Julie Chadwick and the staff and clients of the North Mississippi Regional Center in Oxford. ... On the publishing side, our gratitude goes out to our agent, Marian Young, and our editor/publisher, Ashley Gordon.
True Cross

In the hands of a staff , I felt certain . Hondurans , more likely than not , since that estate looked better tended than local help was usually up to . Maud Hooper had a garden on the hillside between her 48 · T. R. PEARSON.
A Short History of a Small Place

And one of Wallace Amory jr. and Miss Myra Angelique waltzing which carried the caption “Mayor and Sister cut the shine.” Daddy said this was the sort of thing we wanted from our new mayor—idle pleasure, extravagance, simply something ...
Seaworthy: Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting

“Jr * 'Jr \Villis's search in Ecuador for logs of a suitable size to build his raft was arduous and, for a good while, frustratingly unproductive. He was alter balsa in the jungles and had originally hoped to find standing trees of ...
The Last of how it was: A Novel

And Jack Vestal said it was right , said he'd heard as much himself and said it was right , and I said no back in my throat so that could not anybody hear it really but me , and Bill Ed Myrick jr . told me , “ A nigger , ” and told me ...
Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV

Jason Alexander Sean Hayes
Cry Me a River

Part of the considerable humor of this novel derives from its hilarious dichotomy of form and content.
Glad News of the Natural World

Twenty years ago, a first novel appeared and instantly announced the arrival of a master storyteller. T. R. Pearson's A Short History of a Small Place was hailed as...
The Last of How It Was: A Novel

The last volume in an unforgettable trilogy (with A Short History of a Small Place and Off for the Sweet Hereafter)
Seaworthy: Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting

An adventure-filled, wry, and often hilarious account of the adventures of William Willis, a man who rafted across the Pacific in his 60s and again in his 70s is complemented by the stories of various other crazy rafters of the 1950s and ...
A Short History of a Small Place: A Novel

In this introduction to Neely, the youn narrator, Louis benfield, recounts the tragic last days of Miss Myra Angelique Pettigrew, a local spinster and former town belle who, after years of total seculsion, returns flamboyantly to public ...
Off for the Sweet Hereafter

The modern Bonnie and Clyde story of Raeford Benton Lynch and Jane Elizabeth Firesheets.
First in Flight

Let Ray Tatum be your guide. First In Flight marks Ray Tatum's fifth appearance (also Cry Me A River, Polar, Blue Ridge, & Warwolf).These novels can and should be read in no particular order. Publication Sale -- only 99 cents.