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Brighten the Corner Where You Are Paperback - 1990

by Fred Chappell

Brighten the Corner Where You Are was handsdown one of the most widely read and favorably reviewed novels of 1989. This story of a day in the life of Joe Robert Kirkman. North Carolina mountain schoolteacher, sly prakster, and family man, won the hearts of readers and reviews across the country.


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We walked along the crackling road.

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  • Title Brighten the Corner Where You Are
  • Author Fred Chappell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1990-08-15
  • ISBN 9780312050573 / 0312050577
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 5.4 x 8.4 x 0.6 in (13.72 x 21.34 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Didactic fiction, Evolution - Study and teaching - North
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90036878
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Fred Chappell is the award-winning author of over twenty books of poetry and fiction. His previous novels include I Am One of You Forever and Look Back All the Green Valley. He teaches at the University of North Carolina in Grennsboro, where he lives with his wife Susan.

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