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Ferrol Sams: Down Town
June 28, 2007
Ferrol Sams writer

Ferrol Sams, a Georgia legend as well as a humorist, storyteller and physician, reads from his new book Down Town, which spans generations of a Georgia family from the post-Civil War era to contemporary times.

Literature & Philosophy
Fiction | Writing Process
PBA
Georgia Center for the Book
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Image of Down Town
Author: Ferrol Sams
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 320 pages
Image of When All the World Was Young (Contemporary American Fiction)
Author: Ferrol Sams
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (1992)
Binding: Paperback, 624 pages
Image of Run with the Horsemen (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)
Author: Ferrol Sams
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (1984)
Binding: Paperback, 432 pages
Image of The Whisper of the River
Author: Ferrol Sams
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (1986)
Binding: Paperback, 544 pages
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Author: Ferrol Sams
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (1989)
Binding: Paperback, 224 pages
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