Moments of Light Foreward by Annie Dillard. These stories prove that the mythic powers of the balladeer and the story teller survive even in this fragmented and unmysterious day. In the eleven stories gathered here, Fred Chappell engages and entertains
The Inkling by Fred Chappell is, says the New York Times, "A work of genuine talent... Chappell writes with power and passion and with flashes of humor."
This early novel of Chappell's takes sixteen-year-old Jan to where we often try to go-the
Yellow light filled the attic. The light locked with the dust-tons of dust up here-and the atmosphere of the place stuffed his head like a fever. It seemed that he perceived this light with every nerve of his body.
