Category Archives: McCorkle, Jill
Jill McCorkle. Carolina Moon. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1996.
Set in fictional Fulton, N.C. (a town “halfway between the river and the ocean”), this novel is populated by eccentric characters including a controversial local disk jockey and the memorable Quee Purdy, proprietress of a center to help people stop … Continue reading
Filed under 1990-1999, 1996, McCorkle, Jill, Novels Set in Fictional Places
Jill McCorkle. July 7. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1984.
On July 7, in the fictional eastern North Carolina town of Marshboro, multiple generations gather to celebrate the 83rd birthday of Granner Weeks. In another part of town, the proprietor of the Quik Pik is found murdered in his store. … Continue reading
