Rick Zabel

• Jan-2002
• / General Fiction
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Recently re-published as Upon the Breasts of Heaven

The Bird Cage focuses upon the violent atmosphere of a small Kentucky mining community and its residents, whose lives were deeply changed by the turbulent transition from hands-on coal minin...

• Aug-2008
• / General Fiction
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Published in Kindle edition as Psycho Woman

Guthrie LaRue, a so-called renowned terrorist from the 1960s, is mired in the past and can't find her way into the twenty-first century. Now a local laughingstock, she is certain that the only way fo...

• Aug-2009
• / Literary
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Vanity press author Horace Meeker finally gets the opportunity to launch a book tour, which will take him from the hollers of eastern Kentucky throughout the Deep South, down to New Orleans. He takes with him a trunk load of books in a beat-up old ca...

• Mar-2010
• / General Fiction
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In "Upon the Breasts of Heaven," Rick Zabel has crafted a unique mix of pathos and comedy set in a remote Kentucky coal company town that is doomed to be overrun soon by a mountain topping operation. The story unfolds against the background noise of ...

• Mar-2012
• / General Fiction
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Guthrie LaRue, a so-called renowned terrorist from the 1960s, is mired in the past and can't find her way into the twenty-first century. Now a local laughingstock, she is certain that the only way for her to relive her days of infamy is to blow up a ...

• / General Fiction
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Miles Orrick, a lonely old high school art teacher, must hurriedly hide the body of a neurotic sheriff's adulterous wife who died in his apartment during a heavy snowstorm. Scared and confused, he is taken from the beauty and wonder of art and thrust...

• / Thriller
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Dallas Pittman, a haughty, successful factory accountant from Chicago, moves his emotionally unstable new wife, Ronnie, and unruly teenager, Zazu, back to his decrepit rural hometown, where he is reunited with his two sorely frustrated brothers, each...