McCorkle, Jill 1958-

Ferris Beach : a novel by Jill McCorkle( Book )
16 editions published between 1990 and 2009 in English and held by 1,579 libraries worldwide
Kate, a young Southern girl in the 1970s, is caught in a tug-of-war between a prim and sensitive mother and a beautiful and reckless cousin.

Tending to Virginia : a novel by Jill McCorkle( Book )
11 editions published between 1987 and 1997 in English and held by 1,374 libraries worldwide
Three generations of women gather to help Virginia, who has had a hard pregnancy, prepare for the fourth generation.

Carolina moon : a novel by Jill McCorkle( Book )
11 editions published between 1996 and 1999 in English and German and held by 1,373 libraries worldwide
The tale of a North Carolina madam, Quee Purdy, a voluptuous widow in her sixties for whom love and sex are hot commodities in which she deals. She owns Quee's Palace, specializing in repairing broken hearts, alterations and massages.

Crash diet : stories by Jill McCorkle( Book )
8 editions published between 1992 and 1997 in English and held by 1,103 libraries worldwide
Jill McCorkle tells the varied tales of today's southern women, the lives they end up leading, and the loves that distract them. Stuck in the slow lane, gunning their motors, they are women living the real life, hoping things will get better, but surprised when they occasionally do.

Final vinyl days and other stories by Jill McCorkle( Book )
5 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and held by 1,025 libraries worldwide
Witty stories set in the South. The story, It's a Funeral! RSVP, is a kind of do-it-yourself funeral service for those about to die, while in Your Husband Is Cheating on Us, a mistress proposes joining forces with the wife against a second mistress. Another extraordinary collection of short stories by the author of "Carolina Moon" and "Crash Diet". "(McCorkle's) characters . . . ring as true as lead crystal".--"The Commercial Appeal" (Memphis). Available. When Jill McCorkle feels a short story coming on, she goes right ahead and "wastes" wonderful ideas instead of hoarding them for a novel. The result is another extraordinary collection of stories and characters. In "It's a Funeral! RSVP," the storyteller is a woman who takes up self-styled "careers" that suit her circumstances. Now she's stumbled onto one that's so successful that she just can't quit. It's planning funerals, what she calls Going Out Parties, in which the clients are the soon-to-be-deceased themselves. In "Life Prerecorded," perhaps McCorkle's finest short piece to date, the pregnant narrator finds the real meaning of new life by visiting with a very old neighbor who's waiting, too, for his own new life. In these and the rest of the nine stories, Jill McCorkle acts on her penchant for taming the outrageous, humanizing the forbidden, and grounding the hilarious.

Going away shoes : stories by Jill McCorkle( Book )
3 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 857 libraries worldwide
Jill McCorkle, a master of the short story whose work has been compared to that of Alice Munro and Lorrie Moore, is a writer whose characters insist on our immediate and total attention. Here, in her first collection in eight years, are eleven new stories bristling with her signature wit and weight. One way or the other, all of these stories are about women looking love in the face without flinching. Some of them are confronting the reality of domestic disruption; others are simply flirting with the possibilities -- and dangers -- of change. McCorkle's characters make mistakes but aren't interested in hiding behind them. They get divorced or quit their jobs or tell people to step aside, and they move on. From the first story, about a modern-day Cinderella contemplating escape, to the last, "Me and Big Foot," an idyll about finding the perfect prince, McCorkle's collection is the genuine article, the work of a great storyteller who knows exactly how -- and why -- to pair longing and laughter.

July 7th : a novel by Jill McCorkle( Book )
7 editions published between 1984 and 1992 in English and Swedish and held by 834 libraries worldwide

The cheer leader : a novel by Jill McCorkle( Book )
7 editions published between 1984 and 1992 in English and French and held by 803 libraries worldwide
Jo Spencer, an All-American girl, falls for loner Red Williams over a lazy North Carolina summer.

Creatures of habit : stories by Jill McCorkle( Book )
5 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 798 libraries worldwide
Short stories about the residents of Fulton, North Carolina and their relationships with animals.

Good ol' girls original cast recording by Matraca Berg( Sound Recording )
1 edition published in 2010 in English and held by 19 libraries worldwide