COMING IN FALL 2006
Magic Time is the story of a New York City newspaper columnist, Carter Ransom, who returns home to Mississippi after an emotional breakdown to face a father he disappointed and a traumatic past he has long repressed—now back in the news with the reopening of a twenty-five-year-old unsolved civil rights murder case that shattered his family. Set in New York City and Mississippi in the early 1990s, with flashbacks to Mississippi during the 1960s, Magic Time is a love story that charts the progress into the present of a generation whose coming of age coincided with one of the most sensational turning points in American history, the civil rights revolution. Once that cataclysmic period ended, the journey for its players turned interior, and it is this transition from external battles to an internal struggle that is dramatized by Magic Time.

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 The Bridge has been named the best novel of 2002 by the Southeastern Bookseller's Association.

"A heartland winner. . . The fiction debut of a gifted and perceptive artist."

-–Publishers Weekly

"The Bridge [is] a great story–exuberant, proud, myth-challenging–and Marlette has a great, Dickensian time with the telling...A hugely ambitious novel."

-–Washington Post Book World

More Reviews"Doug Marlette's natural talent for delightful humor glimmers in The Bridge.  But he also leaves you holding your heart with both hands."

-–Rick Bragg

 "Marlette's fiction is as searing and brilliant as his visual art.  The Bridge is an exceptional, eloquent book . . . leaves a reader breathless at the end." 

-–St. Petersburg Times

"The finest first novel to come out of North Carolina since the publication of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel."

-–Pat Conroy

"Doug Marlette takes us deep into the heart of America, and deeper into the American heart. . . His past and present not only lives and breathes, it lingers and it haunts your soul."

-–Joe Klein

"The Bridge is about massive, indomitable human spirit and a powerful longing for freedom.  Marlette writes with extraordinary grace, humor and with such bursts of force that I was left in perfect wonder at the novel's close."

-–Kaye Gibbons

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