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UWG Professor Publishes Book
June 17, 2003
CARROLLTON, GA -Randy Hendricks, a University of West Georgia English professor, has published a book of collected fictional stories titled Twelfth Year and Other Times.
Characters in this book are in search of identity, in search of answers, or in search of the right path.
In “The Stove,” Joby Johnson must contend with the weight of his own pride and the questions it raises about who he is and who he wants to be. Sitting in a hospital waiting room, Caleb Vance must confront his own regrets, as he looks back on his wife and their life together in the story “D & C.” The narrator of “Ruins” moves the reader through his search for the real man behind his grandfather and the real man behind himself, seeking in his memories what he could not find in the actual experiences themselves.
Twelfth Year and Other Times is published by Mercer University Press, which publishes monographs and other texts in the humanities. Operated by a ten-member staff, the press publishes more than 30 books annually.
Hendricks is also the author of Lonelier than God: Robert Penn Warren and the Southern Exile and the co-editor (with James A. Perkins) of For the Record: A Robert Drake Reader.
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