Starner Jones
Texas Review Press
160 pages
$22.95
“Starner Jones’ impressive first novel, Purple Church, is a sharply written narrative of sin and redemption that carries the reader quickly and surely through a fast-paced plot with many unexpected turns and reversals. The surprise ending, which involves the antagonist and protagonist, who have been changed forever in the course of the action, reminds one of O. Henry.”
—George Core, editor, Sewanee Review