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Ferrol Sams

Ferrol Sams

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A physician, humorist, storyteller, and best-selling novelist, Ferrol Sams is the author of eight books. Most notable is his trilogy of novels in which an eccentric and quixotic hero, Porter Osborne Jr., mirrors Sams's own Georgia boyhood in Fayette County. All of his works are rooted in the oral traditions of southern humor and folklore.  [more]
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
Image of The Widow's Mite (Contemporary American Fiction)
Author: Ferrol Sams
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (1989)
Binding: Paperback, 224 pages