James Whorton: 5 books
Angela Sloan
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
In his latest novel, universally acclaimed author James Whorton, Jr., delivers a curious Nixon-era caper of broken men and stoic runaways who learn just how much there is to gain, and lose, when you go undercover. Angela Sloan, a seemingly average teenager living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.,...
Approximately Heaven
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Enter the distinctly off-kilter world of Don "Wendell" Brush, an unemployed Tennessee electrician with a penchant for throwing back a few beers before lunch. Mary, his long-suffering wife of seven years, has left him -- or is trying to. Heartsick at the thought of losing her, Don beats her out the...
Frankland
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
With his offbeat sense of humor and down-home Southern sensibility, James Whorton has been compared to luminaries such as John Kennedy Toole and Carson McCullers. He sharpens his cutting wit to a keen edge in Frankland, following the misadventures of a wannabe academic who goes hunting for a secret...
Nature Cures
The History of Alternative Medicine in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
From reflexology and rolfing to shiatsu and dream work, we are confronted today by a welter of alternative medical therapies. But as James Whorton shows in Nature Cures, the recent explosion in alternative medicine actually reflects two centuries of competition and conflict between mainstream medicine...
The Arsenic Century:How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play
How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident.Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken...