Four highly-acclaimed, literary masterpieces, some of them out of print for over 70 years, now collected for the first time on one ebook volume.
CORA POTTS
Greene’s extraordinary first novel, “Cora Potts startled the reading public and completely fascinated Henry L. Mencken, who thought Cora one of the greatest characters in Ameican fiction.” Damon Runyon
Cora Potts was born “poor white trash” in a small town in the deep south. But she uses her beauty, cunning, ambition and pure ruthlessness to escape her destiny, to survive against adversity, and rise from poverty to wealth, in a uniquely American success story that’s shocking in its raw, naked intensity.
“Full of hearty gusto and makes capital reading. The humor never fails. A gorgeous panorama of the New South.” H.L. Mencken, The American Mercury
“The story of a hard-boiled heroine for whom the wages of sin was success. This is a savage and intelligent novel.” The Spokesman Review
“A novel marked by sardonic strength and ferocious characterization. Cora Potts is an extraordinary figure. A powerful, arresting, unforgettable book.” Raleigh News and Observer
“Here is a success story more faithful to life that the average biography of an industrial leader and as purely American as the history of Sam Houston or Daniel Boone.” The Saturday Review of Literature
RIDE THE NIGHTMARE
Southerner Jake Perry is a successful, married comicbook artist living the good life in New York in the 1930s. But, bored and restless, he falls under the sway of Bellerophon Cawdor, a ‘Bohemian love-cultist’ in Greenwich Village, and the sadistic, erotic world he offered. Jake can’t let go, pulling his dutiful high-society wife, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy family, into his tragic obsession with forbidden pleasures, trapping them both in a whirlpool that could destroy their lives.
“Strikingly brilliant,” The News & Observer (Raliegh, NC)
“Well-written and well-developed,” Pittsburgh Press
“One of the most singular and compelling characters in American literature.” Los Angeles Record
DESIRE IN THE DEEP SOUTH
Ward Greene’s blistering third novel, once again set in his fictional Georgia town of Corinth, follows the booze-soaked loves, tragedies, and betrayals of people caught in the clash between old traditions and the new morality of the Jazz Age. It’s a passionate conflict sparked by the return of local girl Eloise King after a decade away in New York…bringing with her the Bohemian ideals of Greenwich Village. The characters include an Italian bootlegger, a sex-starved librarian, a philandering husband, a conniving actress attracted to married men, and the return of Cora Potts, the colorful heroine of Greene’s first book.
“A dramatic explosion.” Portland Oregonian
“The superb characterizations deserve unlimited praise” Wichita Eagle
“A highly readable, a swift-moving narrative.” Palm Beach Post
ROUTE 28
“A story of a curious American scene, packed around a drama with an astonishing climax. Read it if you want a thrill.” Damon Runyon
This is the raw story of a lonely New Jersey highway and the people who travel it: the New Yorkers escaping to their country homes, the hard-scrabble shopkeepers, farmers and their families who live in the small, drive-by communities along the asphalt, and finally the wanderers who live on wheels, eat and drink at roadhouses, and sleep where-ever they stop when night falls…and with anyone willing, warm and desperate enough to share their beds.
“Greene’s use of plot is ingenious.” Buffalo News
“For years, Ward Greene has been doing amazing things with words. He has depicted the heights and depths of human emotion with uncanny skill.” Tucson Citizen
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Anthologies, Historical, Literary Fiction
